The Conversation with Rabbi John Linder
Rabbi John Linder and Brian Cannon discuss the foundations of justice in Torah and explore the pain involved with being a Buffalo sports fan.
Rabbi Linder grew up in Buffalo, New York. Before coming to Temple Solel, he served as a rabbi at Congregation B’nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in Glenview, Illinois. Rabbi Linder received a Masters in Hebrew Letters and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 2003. A 1980 Cum Laude graduate of Amherst College, Rabbi Linder became a rabbi at age 46 after earlier careers as a community and labor organizer and as an executive in his family’s scrap-metal recycling business in Buffalo.