Shabbat on the Beach with guest Rabbi Marc Katz

Shabbat on the Beach fuses summer at the beach with traditional Shabbat rituals. Warm your toes in the sand and join your community in singing, dancing, and celebrating the joys of a magical Shabbat experience.

Rabbi Marc Katz
Rabbi Marc Katz is the rabbi of Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He is the author of two books: “The Heart of Loneliness: How Jewish Wisdom Can Help You Cope and Find Comfort” which was a finalist for the national book award and his most recent, “Yochanan’s Gamble: Judaism’s Pragmatic Approach to Life” which was chosen as a finalist for the PROSE award, one of chief awards in academic publishing. In addition to writing book, Rabbi Katz is a judge for the national book awards (fiction panel) as well as a frequent book reviewer for the Jewish book council.

Yochanan’s Gamble: Judaism’s Pragmatic Approach to Life
Some two thousand years ago, the story goes, a rabbi named Yochanan makes the epitome of pragmatic gambles—wagering the entire fate of the Jewish people. His quick thinking inspired generations of sobriquet rabbis to navigate their own ethical challenges pragmatically—determining truth, upholding compromise, convincing others, keeping peace with neighbors, avoiding infighting, weighing sinning in hopes of promoting a greater good. In his book, Yochanan’s Gamble, Rabbi Katz lays out a new Jewish path forward for resolving moral conundrums in our day and breaking the deadlock that exists in our broken political discourse.