About Jonathan Kasrael Dobrer
Jonathan Dobrer is a professor of comparative religion at the American Jewish University in Bel-Air.
Dobrer worked his way through USC, (International Relations) as a stand up comedian. After enjoying a year at the University of Vienna (Philosophy), he went into the Peace Corps in Tunisia. Returning to America in the late 60s he went to the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
He teaches at American Jewish University, does scholar in residence programs at temples around the country and speaks to local temples, churches and Hadassah groups.
He has written four books, three of which are collections of his past, yet ever-green, columns (Out of My Mind). The fourth is somewhere between an hilarious Job's Tale and an expensive spiritual journey, on the remodel of his house, Rubble with a Cause. Dobrer's latest book Out of My Mind: Memory, Morals & Mortality Mamaloschen, Mitzvot & Mishigas is available on: www.Dobrer.com
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