Harold Kushner obituary

Harold Kushner died on April 28, 2023, in Canton, Massachusetts, at the age of 88.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, a practical public theologian whose best-selling books assured readers that bad things happen to good people because God is endowed with unlimited love and justice but exercises only finite power to prevent evil, died on Thursday in Canton, Mass. He was 88.

His death, in hospice care, was confirmed by his daughter, Ariel Kushner Haber.

Rabbi Kushner wrote “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” (1981) after the death of his son, Aaron.

Several of Rabbi Kushner’s 14 books became best-sellers, resonating well beyond his Conservative Jewish congregation outside Boston.

Most of Kushner’s books went across religious boundaries, because they had been inspired by his own experiences with grief, doubt and faith.

The exact cause of Kushner’s death is not publicly known but it will most likely be of old age.

Harold Samuel Kushner was born on April 3, 1935, to Julius and Sarah (Hartman) Kushner in the East New York section of Brooklyn.