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Lawrence Bush is author of several books of Jewish fiction and non-fiction, including the forthcoming Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist. He recently 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.

He has described himself as "an atheist who has nevertheless worked intimately in Jewish religious institutions as a writer and editor for much of my adult life.

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