Boston's one hot rabbi?

Would love to see such positive coverage of Catholic priests and parishes, too. Perhaps Newsweek intends to run such a piece in the near future. Maybe the Globe could even do a story on local the vibrancy of parishes in the Boston area and thereby hang on as a going concern for a few more months before it expires.

Rabbi Green is not just a "good choice." He is one of the leading figures in contermporary Jewish mysticism, a remarkable teacher, and has a track record of impressive leadership. I suggest anyone with an interest in Kabbalah that wants to avoid the Madonna-flavored version, read his book Eyheh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow. Green once wrote, "How do I affirm that which I deny?", an expression that for many sums up the key struggle of living a modern Jewish life.

Even as a liberal atheist, I think it's nice that Newsweek is giving some positive press to religious leaders. Like commenter 1, I agree that they should showcase a series of different faiths: including Catholicism, and (even more importantly) Islam. For example, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is an interesting and influential Muslim leader who has helped out the FBI. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muslims/interviews/feisal.html

I would love it if Newsweek and this column would give some postive press to some religious leaders in the area that are mainline protestants. This is the most holyest of weeks for christians and there is no coverage in this column about that yet. Not everyone christian in the boston area is catholic.

Agreed, janice013001. I'd love to see a positive story in Newsweek, and particularly the Boston Globe, about any religion, and / or denomination, in addition to Judaism which seems to get an aweful lot of positive "puff pieces" in the Globe, and the media generally. A Globe reader would conclude that all religion, but for Judaism, is evil. I don't understand how that could be, and it's a gross injustice. I mentioned Catholic priests specifically because they have received the lions share of negative Globe coverage in recent years (much of it deserved) without ANY positive stories on the wonderful work which the vast majority of Catholic priests perform daily.