Author Event: Rabbi Harold Kushner

Meet
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER
Discussing and signing
Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World
Wednesday, December 2, 7:30pm
Temple Israel of Greater Miami
137 N.E. 19th Street, Downtown Miami

FREE TICKETS are available for this event at all Books & Books locations and at Temple Israel.

RECEPTION-BOOK-PRIORITY SEATING TICKETS: Meet Rabbi Harold S. Kushner at a private reception prior to his event. The $40 package includes a copy of Conquering Fear, a ticket to the private wine-and-hors d’oeuvres reception with Rabbi Kushner and a reserved priority seat at his reading. Available at all Books & Books locations and at Temple Israel. Reception runs from 6:30-7:30pm.

From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.

An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this indispensable, hopeful book, Harold S. Kushner teaches us to confront, master, and even embrace fear for a more fulfilling life.
Drawing on the teachings of religious and secular literature and on the true stories of people who have faced their fears, Kushner helps us to see that fear can present us with extraordinary opportunities—to connect with our emotions, rethink our values, and change our lives, and the world, for the better. For those who fear helplessness, he suggests empowerment: through prayer, service, and education. For those who fear for mankind’s future, he insists on hope and pragmatic measures, such as working to protect the environment. For those who fear death, he proposes life—lived boldly and purposefully.

In Conquering Fear, we are again inspired by Harold S. Kushner’s wisdom, at once deeply spiritual and eminently practical.

About the Author

Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, where he resides. He has been honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of the fifty people who have made the world a better place in the last half century, and by Religion in American Life as the clergyman of the year in 1999. He is the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People and eight other books.