Shalom Freedman

Shalom Freedman is the author of Small Acts of Kindness: Striving for Derech Eretz in Everyday Life.

Shalom Freedman was born in Troy, New York, and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Cornell University. He came to Israel in 1974 in the wake of the Yom Kippur War. He studied Hebrew in the ulpan at Beit Ha’am and served in the civil defense unit of the Israeli Army over a period of twelve years. He works in Israel as a free-lance writer and translator, and has contributed to a variety of Jewish publications. For many years he has participated in traditional Jewish learning in houses of study in the holy city of Jerusalem.
He has co-authored two works of interviews with teachers of Torah which center on the theme of Avodat HaShem, In the Service of God and Learning in Jerusalem, and a book on the life and thought of Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Living in the Image of God. He has also written a book of Jewish thought, Life as Creation: A Jewish Way of Thinking of the World, an autobiographical work, Seven Years in Israel: A Zionist Storybook, and a book of poems, Mourning for my Father.

You can email him at: Freedman@UrimPublications.com.