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Avi Winokur
A native of Los Angeles, Rabbi Avi Winokur, the spiritual leader of Society Hill Synagogue, came to Philadelphia in 2001 after nine years as the senior rabbi at West End Synagogue in Manhattan. Prior to entering the rabbinate, Rabbi Winokur practiced law in San Francisco for eight years. The husband of Susan Berman and the father of Rafael Winokur, Rabbi Winokur received his B.A. from Brandeis University, his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his rabbinical ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
The God beyond Normative Theism and Normative Atheism
Rethinking God and Spirituality in a Jewish Context
- Sunday 3:30 PM–4:45 PM Room 232
The way we think about God is so often boring, as if the presence of evil can somehow dispose of the God question through simplistic atheism ("I can't believe in a God that let the Holocaust happen or who lets one child die of Tay-Sachs or AIDS") or free will/theism ("It's not God's fault. God gave us free will and so we must struggle to blah, blah, blah"). We can do better than that, and we have. We'll explore some new ways and some old but different ways of thinking about God together.
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