Keep Listening with David Crabtree: Rabbi Eric Solomon discusses anti-Semitism

It took him until the end of college when he began to spiritually seek in earnest that he realized that rabbinical school might be a way for him to both search his soul and save the world. Even in rabbinical school, he was still unsure he made the right choice until he attended services at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in New York City and became acquainted with his eventual mentors, Rabbis Roly Matalon and Marcelo Bronstein. It was then that he came to realize the enormous blessing and privilege it is to serve God and humanity through the congregational rabbinate.

Rabbi Solomon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Maryland and then entered rabbinical school, spending three years in Jerusalem and three years in New York City. He currently serves as rabbi of Beth Meyer Synagogue in Raleigh, national Co-Chair of Truah: A Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and on the board of Urban Ministries of Wake County.

Our conversation focuses on anti-Semitism, its current existence, the rise of more open examples of anti-Semitism and his growing concern.