Harold M. Schulweis

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Harold M. Schulweis (born April 14, 1925 in Bronx , New York City ; died December 18, 2014 in Encino , California ) was an American rabbi and author .

Life

Schulweis directed the conservative Jewish community of Valley Beth Shalom for almost 50 years . He founded the Jewish World Watch , an association of around 60 synagogues in southern California with the aim of promoting Jewish belief and education, but also for activities against the genocide in Darfur and for human rights in the DR Congo .

Schulweis founded the Institute for Righteous Acts in 1963, which was supposed to collect testimonies from Jewish rescuers .

He is the namesake of The Harold M. Schulweis Institute (HMSI) .

Fonts

  • Evil and the Morality of God, (1983)
  • In God's Mirror: Reflections and Essays, (1990)
  • For Those Who Can't Believe: Overcoming the Obstacles to Faith, (1994)
  • Meditations and Prayers for the Renewal of the Body and the Renewal of the Spirit, (2000)
  • Finding Each Other in Judaism: Meditations on the Rites of Passage from Birth to Immortality, (2001)
  • When You Lie Down and When You Rise Up: Nighstand Meditations, (2001)
  • Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey, (2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dana Bartholomew: Valley Beth Shalom Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, world leader, dies at 89 , Los Angeles Daily News , December 18, 2014 (English)
  2. ↑ Eva Fleischner : A Door that Opended and Never Closed: Teaching the Shoah , in: Carol Rittner, John K. Roth (Ed.): From the unthinkable to the unavoidable: American Christian and Jewish scholars encounter the Holocaust . Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 1997, p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Schulweis, Harold M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rabbi and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2014
Place of death Encino , San Fernando Valley , near Los Angeles