The Lilac Tree: A Rabbi's Reflections on Love, Courage, and History Hirsch Ammiel
The Lilac Tree: A Rabbi's Reflections on Love, Courage, and History Hirsch Ammiel Applying Jewish values to our personal and communal lives.Ammiel Hirsch has been one of America's leading rabbis for…
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The Lilac Tree: A Rabbi's Reflections on Love, Courage, and History Hirsch Ammiel
Applying Jewish values to our personal and communal lives.Ammiel Hirsch has been one of America's leading rabbis for more than three decades. Hirsch grapples with the harsh realities of COVID-19, anti-Semitism, and America in the wake of the Trump presidency. A Zionist activist who spent his formative years in Israel, Hirsch rose to prominence as the executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America and then as the spiritual leader of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in the Upper West Side in Manhattan.The Lilac Tree offers stirring reflections on life and death, science and faith, political activism and deep learning, and history and the future.
We travel with him to the ruins of Ancient Greece and Rome, the site of Auschwitz, and a hotel in Basel where Theodor Herzl dreamed of a Jewish state--all seen through his incisive, witty, and eminently