Description
"This is a loving, sophisticated, illuminating, outstanding depiction of a brilliant intellectual/spiritual/moral leader who deserves just such a treatment. This book will serve as testimony and inspiration for the new generation... a tour de force articulation of a truly great life." - Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
A comprehensive biography about the life and work of Rabbi Harold Shulweis who was essential in the renewal of Jewish life in post-war America.
Harold Schulweis was a dominant figure in the renewal of Jewish life in the post-war generation of American Jewry. Widely regarded as the most successful and influential pulpit rabbi of his generation, he shaped an extraordinary career as pulpit rabbi, theologian, public intellectual, and communal leader. His innovations in synagogue practice reshaped congregations across the continent introducing synagogue-based havurot, "para-rabbinics" and para-professional counseling programs, outreach to alienated Jews and "unchurched" Christians, opening the traditional synagogue to gay and lesbian Jews and their families, and welcoming families of children with special needs. With Leonard Fein, Schulweis founded Mazon, the Jewish communal response to hunger. He launched The Foundation for the Righteous - recognizing Christians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust - an effort chronicled on the CBS news program "60 Minutes." In the closing years of his career, he initiated the Jewish World Watch - a communal response to the incidence of genocide worldwide.
- - extensive outreach to Jewish Lights/ Skylight Path authors
- - email campaigns to Jewish Lights consumers and author's Rabbinical Assembly mailing list of 2500
- - temple/synagogue mailings
- - excerpts/guest articles pitched to Jewish News, Tablet Magazine, the Jewish Journal, the New York Jewish week, the Forward
- - signings/speaking arrangements at Jewish community book fairs
- - targeted outreach to the Association of Jewish Libraries
About the Author
Rabbi Edward Feinstein is senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. He is an instructor in the Ziegler Rabbinical School of American Jewish University and the Wexner Heritage Program. He is the author of Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult's Guide to Building a Jewish Life (Jewish Lights) and Capturing the Moon; and the editor of Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century: Human Responsibilities, the Presence of God, and the Future of the Covenant (Jewish Lights). He contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism-Yizkor; Who by Fire, Who by Water-Un'taneh Tokef and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism-Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights).
Reviews
"A must-read, extraordinarily important book for any Jewish leader looking for practical strategies for communal growth and engagement from the remarkable Harold M. Schulweis, the most innovative rabbi of our time. His devoted disciple, Rabbi Ed Feinstein, has written a highly readable account of Rabbi Schulweis's thought and action that will inspire, inform, and uplift you." -Dr. Ron Wolfson, Fingerhut Professor of Education, American Jewish University, author of Relational Judaism.
"This is a loving, sophisticated, illuminating, outstanding depiction of a brilliant intellectual/spiritual/moral leader who deserves just such a treatment. This book will serve as testimony and inspiration for the new generation... a tour de force articulation of a truly great life." - Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
"Feinstein puts Schulweis into an intellectual and philosophical context that draws deeply on Jewish values and wisdom and, at the same time, challenges the reader to consider new ways of understanding what has gone before... intellectually commanding and yet so deeply heartfelt." -The Jewish Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9781684424344
Author Edward M. Feinstein
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Turner Publishing Company
Publisher Turner Publishing Company
