Stephen Kessler | 'Surely the bitterness of death is past' – Santa Cruz Sentinel
"A biblical scholar I’m not. I never learned Hebrew or had a bar mitzvah," writes Stephen Kessler. "But I did attend a Reform Sunday school, so I know something about Judaism, and in college I studied the Bible as literature and became enamored of many of its texts, the beauty of their poetry and the profundity of their wisdom."
Source: santacruzsentinel.com