Michael Bernstein
Rabbi Michael Bernstein is the spiritual leader of Congregation Gesher L’Torah in Alpharetta, Ga. He served as the senior Rabbi at Congregation Bnai Jacob in Longmeadow, MA from 1999-2004, and at Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley, Pa., from 2004-2008. Michael received his ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1999 and is an alumni of the Rabbis Without Borders second cohort. Michael specializes in Jewish philosophy, especially that of Emmanuel Levinas and focuses on how to see the directives inherent in Jewish tradition as meaningful, ethical, and relevant.
Articles by Michael Bernstein
Yogi Berra and Sukkot
Yogi Berra was the master of saying the wrong thing in the most right way. His death a couple of ...
The Waters of Noah: 10 Years After Katrina
There was no ark and no one chosen to survive the flood that devastated New Orleans in the wake of ...
G*d of the Gaffes
When Jon Stewart left his post tonight he left behind a legacy of fake reporting real news with an eye ...
It’s Not Fair!
“It’s not fair!” If you are like me you have both had this said to you and have said it ...
No Time to Lose
The day after the day after the Israeli elections the words of the quintessential Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai come to ...
In Good Faith: Why Religious Freedom Must Go Hand in Hand With Dignity for All
Today I was in the Georgia Capitol to speak against a bill entitled the Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The battlelines have ...
A Privilege to be Thankful
When Abraham Lincoln set forth his proclamation in 1863 fixing a national day of Thanksgiving he evoked the images of ...
Rabbis in Favor of Atheism
That’s not something you hear all the time, especially on the day leading into Yom Kippur, perhaps the most G*d ...
G*d is Everywhere… No, Really
Images of horror, most pointedly the public beheadings of two American journalists in a matter of weeks, have ensured that ...
Beep, Turn the Page.
When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...