About the Book: Pretend You Believe
Many of us long for spiritual connection, only to run up against confusion,
discomfort and sometimes even aversion to organised religion. Noa Kushner
understands this well. As the founding rabbi of The Kitchen, a progressive,
experimental Jewish congregation, she has guided thousands of people into a
relationship with religion they never thought they would or could experience.
In this concise, soul-stirring book, Kushner offers a transformational picture
of religion for the moments in life when we yearn to transcend our self-imposed
limits. She proposes that we treat religion, at first, not as something we
believe but as something we