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Rabbi's 1990 meeting with Dalai Lama was recalled in best-selling book 'The Jew in the Lotus'; also founded an egalitarian, nondenominational Jewish community in Los Angeles
Omer-Man’s meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1990 was described in Rodger Kamenetz’s best-selling book “The Jew in the Lotus.”
Jonathan Omer-Man, a rabbi and pioneer in Jewish meditation, died on Tuesday. A Berkeley resident in his later years, he was 89.
As a radical gay feminist in historically patriarchal Israel, Ms. Freedman was under constant criticism and was often dismissed by her colleagues.