Rabbi Ben Kamin
Rabbi Kamin is an author and freelance writer. He may be contacted via ben.kamin@sdjewishworld.com
Martin Luther King Jr.: A flesh-and-blood human
There is a growing and voluble trend among scholars and journalists that we quite some time ago let go of the real King in favor of a caricatured legend–or, as Charles Blow of The New...
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On the approaching night of shared candles
A benevolent calendar coincidence, occurring every few years, will bring us on Dec. 24 to the shared lighting of solstice calendars by both Christians and Jews. The solar and lunar calendar cycles have intertwined,...
At the Lorraine Motel 50 years later
OCEANSIDE, California –Flying into Memphis last Tuesday, through purple mists and hovering ghosts, the plane reeling from the clouds and rain, I felt Dr King’s sad spirit floating over the grayish Mississippi River, the...