by Fred Guttman | Jul 28, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Jewish tradition tells us, “It is not up to one to complete the task, but neither is one free to desist from trying to do something.” In 1960, four men from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, including my friend Franklin McCain, sat...
by Fred Guttman | Mar 3, 2022 | Opinion
The relationship between Polish people and Jewish people have been tense at times. For example, there was a strong disagreement in recent years between the governments of Israel and the Poland regarding memorialization of the Holocaust. It is time to put aside the...
by Fred Guttman | Feb 7, 2022 | Opinion
Whoopi Goldberg’s serious misstatements about race and the Nazi Holocaust, and her resulting two-week suspension from “The View,” brought to mind two incidents from years’ past. There was a serious incident of antisemitic bullying at a local middle school in...
by Good Faith Media | Jan 28, 2022 | News
Fred Guttman is Rabbi Emeritus at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he served as rabbi from 1995 to 2021. 1. What story, verse or passage from your faith tradition’s sacred texts has significantly influenced / shaped your life? “Hear Israel,...
by Fred Guttman | Jan 10, 2022 | Opinion
Some incredible people and events were on my mind on the one-year anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021. I started by remembering my father who was in the Pacific with the Navy in World War II. My wife’s dad was in the Atlantic in the Navy during World War II as part of an...
