God on trial: Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust’s hardest question

God on trial: Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust’s hardest question

The smoke rising from Auschwitz asks a question we still struggle to answer. When we confront the Holocaust — perhaps the single most devastating tragedy in modern history, the unfathomable abyss etched into our collective memory — we also face one of the most profound theological dilemmas imaginable: Where was God? This is not merely an academic query. It reverberates in the whispered stories of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It shado…