“Ben Kamin can talk to anybody about anything.”
—Congressman Louis Stokes, Cleveland, Ohio

Rabbi Ben Kamin is a nationally-known clergyman, teacher, counselor, and the author of seven books on human values, civil rights, and spirituality. He has led congregations in Toronto, New York, Cleveland, and San Diego since his ordination in 1978. He has published hundreds of articles about community life in newspapers around the world, ranging from The New York Times to The International Herald-Tribune. He has been quoted in the Ann Landers column and in The Congressional Record. He appears frequently on radio and television and serves on several national boards dealing with community affairs and interfaith relations. He is married to Audrey Kamin, a financial professional and community activist; they live in Del Mar, Ca., and share four children. Rabbi Kamin holds the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Union College.

In 2004, Audrey and Ben co-founded Reconciliation: The Synagogue Without Walls, a privately-operated consulting agency for interfaith relations, pastoral and communal. Ben represents the agency as a director of San Diego’s Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.



Rabbi Ben Kamin’s Published Books Include:

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Being Launched by Ben at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis on April 4, 2010!

Nothing Like Sunshine

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A Story in the Aftermath of the MLK Assassination

Ben Kamin

Rabbi Ben Kamin, Op-ed contributor to The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Toronto Star, columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the San Diego Union Tribune; author of seven books on American cultural values; renowned multi-cultural expert and public speaker; historian, scholar, and teacher—has now written his definitive personal expression on race, coming of age in the 1960s, a forbidden friendship, and his personal love for Reverend King. It is a story that spans a four-decade search for a lost high school chum, a deep misunderstanding, and a coming to terms with an America painfully evolving from the blood of MLK to the promise of Barack Obama.

“No single writer living in America today can communicate the black-white story more evocatively than Ben Kamin.”

T. George Harris, a founder of TIME-LIFE and Psychology Today

EXCERPT:
“We were afraid, we were wary, we were in danger in those days, but we actually had personal feelings of connection and intimate affinities with many of the men and women who led us in politics, music, poetry, and social justice. And we mourned the martyrs of the time, the iconic Kennedy brothers as well as Dr. King, but also a host of guitarists and lyricists and writers and countless, faceless soldiers, nurses, chaplains, and students and housewives who marched and even died in favor of a better society that cherished values more than valuables. And the words of the more famous ones—from the Beatles to Bobby—are words that we remember, as clearly as we remember the words of our parents, or the first movie we saw with that certain date, or what transpired in the city high school which I attended from the inception of the federal government’s civil rights legislation in 1964 through to Woodstock and the Apollo moon landing of 1969 and, finally, to the bloody coda, just four weeks before our graduation from Woodward—the Kent State massacre of 1970…I truly believe that, from time to time, across six years of secondary school during a decade unique in American history and social cataclysm, a group of youngsters became colorblind. Being together—around a Bunsen burner, on the raw tiles of a locker room and shower, in the heaving hallways of a Friday morning pep rally, at a lunchroom strike protesting lousy food, precipitated some level of tolerance.”

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
scheduled for publication Spring 2010

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