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Rabbi Marc’s A Dash of Drash – Refugee Journeys Past and Present – Episode 72

Rabbi Marc Soloway July 11, 2018 Jewish Life Comments Off on Rabbi Marc’s A Dash of Drash – Refugee Journeys Past and Present – Episode 72

Refugee Journeys Past and Present with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg is Episode 72 of A Dash of Drash
Towards the end of The Book of Numbers, there is a list of 42 places on the Israelite’s journey as they hope to enter a new land. It is reminiscent of the wanderings of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers of which there are some 65 million in our world today. Rabbi Marc’s mentor, teacher and friend Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of New North London Synagogue, has been an important activist in this realm, and together they reflect on some Jewish approaches to the desperate situations facing immigrants and refugees in our times.
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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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