MEET AUTHOR, ARTIST and EDITOR LAWRENCE BUSH

THURSDAY JUNE 26, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Lawrence Bush describes himself as "an atheist who has nevertheless worked intimately in Jewish religious institutions as a writer and editor for much of my adult life." He is the author of several books of Jewish fiction and non-fiction, including, most recently, Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist. He provided updating and commentary for the millennial edition of Leo Rosten's classic, The Joys of Yiddish. Bush edits Jewish Currents, a bimonthly magazine that is more than 60 years old, and is the former editor of Reconstructionism Today, the quarterly magazine of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement. He was co-editor of Jews, an arts magazine and mail-art experience that was published from 1999-2004. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Tikkun, Moment, Reform Judaism and Mad Magazine, among others. He served for more than a decade as speechwriter for Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the late leader of Reform Judaism in America.