December 7, 7:30 pm. Buy tickets here.
At Sinai Temple, 10400 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
As recent host and anchor of NBC’s Sunday morning standard, Meet the Press, David Gregory asked everyone who’s anyone in international and national politics questions that rattled cages and ruffled feathers. That was his job. It was after an interview with President George W. Bush, that President Bush asked Gregory a question that rattled and ruffled him: “How’s your faith?”
David Gregory’s new book, How’s Your Faith? is not another installment about a man’s spiritual journey towards self knowledge. It is instead an exploration of his own background as the child of an alcoholic Irish Catholic mother and a Jewish father, and how that fed into the man he would become. Gregory delves into a variety of religious traditions and cultures, while identifying as a Jew himself. Married to a Protestant woman, he writes about the challenges, joys and struggles of interfaith marriage and child-rearing. His discussion of the compromises that each partner brings to the interfaith marriage is profound and illuminating, and is a must-read for anyone involved in a similar situation. Gregory’s self-assessment regarding some of his angry outbursts reveals someone who is trying to balance a life in the sometimes “toxic” public sphere with a personal and peaceful home life.
Rabbi David Wolpe is the internationally renown and respected leader of Sinai Temple. Newsweek called him “the most influential Rabbi in America,” and he has appeared on list after list as one of the most influential Jewish leaders in the world. There’s a reason for that: he’s brilliant, dynamic and controversial– he takes stands that sometimes aren’t popular with his fellow Rabbis. Rabbi Wolpe is an author of many books, including Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times; and Why Faith Matters.
RSVPs are appreciated and mandatory in order to access garage parking. Tickets, $18.
The entrance to Sinai Temple’s parking structure is on Ashton Ave., one block south of Wilshire Blvd. Please give your name to the security guard and be prepared to open your trunk for a brief search.
