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Kushner, Jacob ben Abraham

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A native of Detroit, Michigan, Lawrence Kushner is the Emanu-El Scholar, in-residence at the Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, where he devotes his full energies to teaching and writing. Prior to this, he was Rabbi-in-Residence at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. Before that, he served for 28 years as the rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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Author of God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning (The Kushner series)

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