Content on Scientists in Synagogues (Page 10)
Each of the congregations selected by Scientists in Synagogues agreed to create content such as blogposts, videos, and other resources surrounding Judaism and science. The topics they explore range from the neuroscience of free will to astrobiology to technology, and so here you will find all the content resources that have arisen out of this initiative.
Can a Visual Generation Accept a Text-Based Religion?
Can an alternative to textual study offer us deeper levels of meaning?
Open Your Eyes
As we begin this new year, there are millions like Hagar and Ishmael wandering their personal wildernesses in search of survival and needing aid. We learn from the Torah not to expect divine intervention to rescue them. We need to act ourselves, as did Hagar.
Can We Have God and Science?
Not only has science advanced by leaps and bounds since we were in college in the 70’s, but some of the things we learned as scientific “fact” are no longer “facts” at all.
Kabbalat Shabbat: When Tomorrow Comes
When time proves to be dizzyingly complex, we can find firm footing in the grounded truth and quiet expanse of Shabbat.
Thoughtful, Hopeful, Jewish: Navigating between Reason and Optimism in Scary Times
How do we navigate between reason and optimism as they crash against each other?
Confessions of a Jewish Particle Physicist
My God is that ineffable being or essence that must suffuse our world and make it just so – make it a world that continues to fill me with awe.
We’re All Scientists
Science is exploration, and exploration begins with just two things that are really easy: ignorance, and a desire to stop being ignorant.
Understanding Biotechnology, Jewishly
What does long-standing Jewish wisdom have to say about the very recent concept of growing organs?
What Does It Mean to Make a Choice?
What does it mean when we make a choice, or when we say we like or dislike something?
Why Science Would Never Prove That Life Is Like a Bowl of Cherries
The fact that a poetic statement like “human life is like a bowl of cherries” is a false scientific fact does not detract from its profound truth, reality, and insight.
Should Black Holes Praise Their Creator?
All stars have light, even the ones that don’t seem to have it on the surface.
Cosmic Consolation: Wrinkles in Time
Ritual telescopes time and place, bringing together past, present and future, sacred space and wherever we happen to be.