Asher Wade
Rabbi Dr. Asher Wade is an American-born international lecturer, college instructor and psychotherapist. He was also well known as a "must have" tour-guide at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Israel, from Jan. 1991 until Nov. 2005.
Although there have been a number of Christian clergy who have become converts to Judaism, Asher Wade is one of the few who have gone on to become an orthodox rabbi. As an ordained Methodist minister, Asher Wade and his wife were moved by the articles in a Sunday morning newspaper commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Kristallnacht. At that time, he was attending the University of Hamburg in Germany working towards his doctorate in the field of Metaphysics and Relativity Theory.
He had already earned a B.A. in Philosophy in America and a Master's degree in Philosophical Theology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In addition, he had previously interned as an adolescent and marriage counselor at the U.S. Army Chaplaincy Center in Berlin while he was attending the Goethe Institute for German studies.
Read more about Asher Wade: Kristallnacht, Conversion
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