Creator Bio
Michael Lerner
b. 1943
Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Michael Lerner attended Columbia University and received a Ph.D. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley, in 1972. A rabbi, left-wing activist, and the leader of the Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley, he is widely known as the founder and editor in chief of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish magazine.
Content by Michael Lerner
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Anti-Semitism on the Left
Michael Lerner
Like many of their Jewish assimilationist parents, many Jews who became active in the Left felt that the best way to deal with anti-Semitism was to convince themselves that if they showed they were…