Laura Baum
Loveland, Ohio
How is your Hero working to make the world a better place?
She uses technology to share Judaism in the 21st century. Not all Jews have access to a synagogue or can make it there every week, Rabbi Laura Baum to the rescue, you have access to services via the web from a real live synagogue.
How has your Hero impacted your life and inspired you?
A year or two ago, while reading parts of the Kansas City Star newspaper on the web, I read a section about faith/religion and I believe about the High Holidays, and I read Rabbi Laura Baum's quote, "We Jews are good at pushing people away". That took a lot of courage on her part to say that. I sent my thanks to her, because, I realize that there was a rabbi out there that did realize some things and spoke up and she really encouraged me.