Rabbi Maurice Harris

Maurice is the author of three books: Moses: A Stranger Among Us (2012); Leviticus: You Have No Idea (2013), and The Forgotten Sage: Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah and the Birth of Judaism as We Know It (2019), all from Cascade Books. He blogs at www.theaccidentalrabbi.blog. He is married to Melissa Crabbe, and they have two children, Clarice Harris and Hunter Harris.

Essays

Facing Antisemitism

June 23, 2022

The Torah sometimes feels uncomfortably timeless. Telling the story of yetzi’at mitzrayim (the exodus from Egyptian slavery) at this year’s Seder led some of us

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Tikkun Olam Is an Authentic Jewish Value

August 21, 2018

Maurice Harris argues that liberal Jewish communities have the full right to use tikkun olam as an umbrella term, despite opposition voiced by conservative critics. The spiritual significance of the term is not undervalued, he writes, by the use of it.

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