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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: The Jewish Genius for Surviving Catastrophe
Description: This lecture is in honor of Dr. Sherman Minkoff.
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The Hebrew School I attended as a child taught us about every catastrophe that befell the Jewish People. It was a tale of endless destruction, persecution, and exile. But left out of the story they told us was the best part — the miraculous capacity of the Jewish People to turn catastrophe into opportunity, and tragedy into creativity. The Jewish talent for renewal, re-invention, and resilience can give us hope for our future.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Rabbi Ed Feinstein is senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. He...