Michael Lerner is an American rabbi, political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco.
Michael Lerner was born and grew up in he Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey. In his youth, he attended Far Brook Country Day School, a private school which he characterized has having "a rich commitment to interdenominational Christ...
more
Michael Lerner is an American rabbi, political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco.
Michael Lerner was born and grew up in he Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey. In his youth, he attended Far Brook Country Day School, a private school which he characterized has having "a rich commitment to interdenominational Christianity". While he has written that he appreciated "the immense beauty and wisdom of the Christianity to which [he] was being exposed", he also felt religiously isolated, as the child of passionate Zionists who attended Hebrew school three times a week, while at the same time being heavily exposed to Christian-oriented cultural activities in school. At his own request, in the 7th grade he switched to a public school in the Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, where his peers were, in his estimation, 80% Jewish.
He graduated from Weequahic High...
less
