it is SO easy to suggest wrong conclusions with a little careful quotation out of context. In the long copy/paste article above, the Jewish scholar says,

"Fans of Stephen Hawking will know of his final statement in "A Brief History of Time" in which he says that by understanding quantum mechanics, mankind will know the mind of G-d. Science is again moving towards religion, just as religion is taking a more scientific view."

note that this REFERS to a quote from Hawking, with little detail, and the last part 'Science is again moving towards religion', is NOT a Hawking quote OR view. Those who would like to see support for religious views among well-known scientists have repeated this quote endlessly, and many articles have been written explaining what Hawking was really saying. Indeed, I saw a program just recently where Hawking himself explained that his most recent theory about the universe did not require any sort of creation at all!

In the original statement in "A Brief History of Time", Hawking was using "the mind of god" in a VERY metaphorical way, and later he has been at pains to clarify that he was NOT championing a religious view. He understand very well that humans are awed by the discoveries they are making, and often need a poetic way to express it all, but that is far from injecting a really religious attitude into his attempts to work out scientifically how thing actually happen.