About Rabbi Robert Levine

Rabbi Levine leads the congregation of Rodeph Shalom, one of the largest reform synagogues in New York. He is the President of the New York Board of Rabbis, Chairman of the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of the Archdiocese of New York, and one of New York’s most active interfaith clergymen.  He has appeared on CNN’s Paula Zahn Now, Crossfire, CBS The Early Show, and argued with Mel Gibson that “The Passion of the Christ” is a gross distortion of history. He is the author of two other books, Where are You When I Need You?: Defending God When Life Hurts, and There is No Messiah, and You’re It: The Steady Transformation of Judaism’s Most Provocative Idea. 

How Atheism Poisons Everything

By Rabbi Robert Levine October 24, 2008

Celebrity atheists abound these days. They move a lot of literary product and enrich themselves by selling something in which they do not believe. I sincerely wish their books would talk about God, but they really do not. In fact, … Read More

God’s Big Bang

By Rabbi Robert Levine October 23, 2008

You know Tevye’s song from Fiddler on the Roof, "If I Were A Rich Man?" I would be a rich man if I had a buck for every child of Bar or Bat Mitzvah age who has said to me, … Read More

What Your Bubbie Really Thinks about Barack Obama

By Rabbi Robert Levine October 22, 2008

I stared at the words on my computer screen in utter disbelief: BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE HAPPY NEW YEAR! PLEASE VOTE FOR THE SHVARTZEH! Everybody knows that you can’t trust everything you read these days. Websites disgorge tons of stuff that … Read More

The Transcendence of Buying Shoes

By Rabbi Robert Levine October 21, 2008

The first time I remember being stunned was at Arnold’s Shoe Store. I went there for the gumball machine which apparently only disgorged my favorite redshots after I had spent a lot of money. My parents took me there because … Read More

Palin Around with Tina Fey

By Rabbi Robert Levine October 20, 2008

Rabbi Robert Levine, author of What God Can Do for You Now, will be blogging all week as one of Jewcy‘s Soap Box bloggers.  A rabbi on New York’s Upper West Side, Levine presents a new outlook on God and … Read More