SUFFERING & EVIL: A Universal Problem

Why do bad things happen to good people? This question was raised in the Bible by Job, and Jews have never stopped asking since. In face of the radical evil of the Holocaust, some thinkers choose to focus on human responses to suffering. Others refuse to end the search for innovative solutions to the problem of evil.

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    Jewish messianism has been repeatedly reinterpreted in the modern era.

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