Ben Kamin - Publications

Publications

• Stones in the soul: one day in the life of an American rabbi, Macmillan Publishing, 1990

"a sweeping account of the making of a rabbi in America, and, in a sense, an apology for the separate peace that a modern rabbi must make with God if he is to survive at all."

• Raising a thoughtful teenager: a book of answers and values for parents, Dutton, 1996

"The rabbi has not written a chapter-and-verse, throw-the-book-at-them advice book. He presents a gentler but well-grounded alternative."

• Thinking Passover: a rabbi's book of holiday values, Dutton, 1997

In this book, Kamin "weaves his own Israeli origin and early upbringing and his parents' participation in the struggle for Israel's independence into the biblical Passover story."

• The Spirit Behind the News, Muffin Dog Press, 2009

• Nothing like sunshine: a story in the aftermath of the MLK assassination, Michigan State University Press, 2010

"Through the filter of nearly 40 years of his own life, Rabbi Kamin explores American race relations, the rapid social change of the 1960s, and his efforts to model his own spiritual life after that of King's."