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Kaplan Minyan with Rabbi Steve Gutow
Saturday, June 7^th at 10:00am

Learning How To Treat Each Other—LessonsFrom Ancient Jerusalem
Rabbi Steve Gutow

When we think about the key problems in our society, who would imagine that our most important lessons might well come from Jewish scholars in Jerusalem at the beginning of the first millennium more than  2000 years ago.

The wisdom of these early rabbinic scholars is  almost beyond belief—What makes me sad is that the values and decisions made in the religious community in ancient Israel are so on point today yet we can't seem to incorporate them into how we think and progress today.  We are stuck in a world where people are content to simply hate each other or, even worse, to not care about each other at all.

Many of us in today’s world do not know how to turn off the venom and anger rules the roost.  

Let's discuss how their solution might help us find the answers we need to discern.

Rabbi Steve Gutow is an American rabbi, lawyer, community activist, and Jewish leader. He completed six years as a visiting scholar at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and co-director of the Religious Leadership and Civic Engagement initiative. He formerly served as the president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs - the public policy and community relations coordinating agency of the American Jewish community.

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