Rabbi Jon Sommer

Rabbi Jon Sommer served in the United States Air Force, and began his professional training and work at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and later in Washington, D.C., and at Air Force Space Command. He received the distinguished Air Force Achievement Medal. Sommer is a graduate of both Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the University of California. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and a master’s degree in Hebrew Letters. He serves on the board of a Reform Movement think-tank that addresses critical and timely issues facing modern Jewish thought and practice.

Essays

Buber, Berlin and Pesakh: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic

April 8, 2020

Are we going to subscribe to an ageist and ableist medical model of decision-making driven by profit, and outmoded ideas about the infallibility of science? Or are we going to seek ethical alternatives that make life-and-death choices more equitable?

Rabbi Jon Sommer

Essays

Buber, Berlin and Pesakh: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic

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