Harold S. Kushner is a rare bird: a popular religious writer set apart by his humility and lack of proselytizing. This rabbi’s long list of best-selling books, including his 1981 hit “When Bad Things ...

It is the classic story of bad things happening to someone trying to do good. Like the Old Testament tale that befell the tragic biblical figure of Job; students and staff at the federally funded ...

The Book of Job is the closest thing in Hebrew to a Greek tragedy. A perfectly innocent man—one “who feared God and turned away from evil”—is visited by a series of calamities. He loses his ...

The Book of Job, and the trials of Job. Hard and endless. We’ll ask what the hard old Bible story has to say now. An image from William Blake's engravings illustrating the biblical Book of Job. Job, a ...