Events for November 2019

In this wide-ranging discussion with Rabbi Gordon, Sarah Hurwitz will discuss her recently-published book, Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life – in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There). She’ll talk about what led her to engage in deep Jewish learning and what she discovered during her journey. Sarah […]

Join us for an evening with Sarah Hurwitz as she reads from her book and participates in a Q&A session. After a decade as a political speechwriter – serving as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama, a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton on her 2008 presidential campaign […]

After a decade as a political speechwriter—serving for First Lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton on her 2008 presidential campaign—Sarah Hurwitz decided to apply her skills as a communicator to writing a book . . . about Judaism. And no one is more surprised than she is. Hurwitz was the quintessential lapsed […]

Sarah Hurwitz, J.D. Speech Writer for Michele Obama/Author Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life–in Judaism (2019) Sarah embraces the ultimate questions thoughtful people have wrestled with for 100s of years. Who am I? Who is God? Does religion make a difference? Why is there pain and suffering in the […]