Meet My Rabbi, Bring Your Dog – Thursday at Bonai Shalom

I am so excited that my rabbi, mentor and friend from London, Rabbi Jonathan Wittneberg, will be in Boulder very briefly this week and will be talking about two of his amazing books on Thursday at Bonai Shalom. Rabbi Jonathan’s most recent publication is Things My Dog Has Taught Me about Being a Better Human and we invite you and your well-behaved dogs to come to the back of Bonai Shalom for a special canine blessing and talk about the book at 6pm on Thursday.

At 7.30 pm, Jonathan will be talking about his much acclaimed recent My Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution, the extraordinary story of his German family pieced together from 100s of letters found in an attic.

Rabbi Jonathan is passionate and articulate and inspirational and I hope you will get a chance to meet him and join us for one or both of these talks.

 

About Rabbi Marc Soloway

Marc is a native of London, England where he was an actor and practitioner of complimentary medicine before training as a rabbi in London, Jerusalem and Los Angeles. He was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinical Studies at the American Jewish University in 2004 and has been the the spiritual leader at Bonai Shalom in Boulder ever since. Marc was a close student of Rabbi Zalman Schechter Shalomi and received an additional smicha (rabbinic ordination) from him in 2014, just two months before he died. He has been the host and narrator of two documentary films shown on PBS; A Fire in the Forest: In Search of the Baal Shem Tov and Treasure under the Bridge: Pilgrimage to the Hasidic Masters of Ukraine. Marc is a graduate of the Institute of Jewish Spirituality, a fellow of Rabbis Without Borders, has traveled to Ghana in a rabbinic delegation with American Jewish World Service and co-chair of the Rabbinical Council and national board member of Hazon, which strives to create more sustainable Jewish communities. In 2015, Marc was among a group of 12 faith leaders honored at The White House as “Champions of Change” for work on the climate. Marc is a proud member of Beit Izim, Boulder’s Jewish goat milking co-op.

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