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Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in the Boston suburb of
Natick, Massachusetts. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and
graduated from Columbia University. He has six honorary
doctorates, has studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and
has taught at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the
Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Kushner was
the editor of the magazine Conservative Judaism for four
years. In 1995, he was honored by The Christophers, a nonprofit
organization devoted to spreading messages of hope and
understanding, as one of the 50 people who have made the world a
better place in the last 50 years. In 1999, the national
organization Religion in American Life paid tribute to him as
their clergyman of the year.
Harold Kushner is
best known as the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good
People, an international bestseller first published in 1981.
This volume has been translated into 14 languages and was recently
selected by members of the Book of the Month Club as one of the 10
most influential books of recent years. He has also written When
All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, which was awarded the
Christopher Medal for its contribution to the exaltation of the
human spirit. Rabbi Kushner's other books are The Lord Is My
Shepherd (2003), Living A Life That Matters (2002), How
Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and
Forgiveness (1996), When Children Ask About God: A Guide
For Parents Who Don't Always Have All The Answers (1995), To
Life! A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking (1993) and Who
Needs God (1989).
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believe strongly that one of the primary goals of religion is to
teach people to like themselves and feel good about themselves.
All my experience has taught me that people who feel good about
themselves will be more generous, more forgiving of others, less
defensive about their mistakes, more accessible to change, and
better able to cope with misfortune and adversity.
Harold
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