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The Prophet Jonah: leadership and responsibility
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EINAT RAMON
Jerusalem Post
09-21-2007
Headline: The Prophet Jonah: leadership and responsibility
Byline: EINAT RAMON
Edition; Up Front
Section: Features
Page: 34
Friday, September 21, 2007 -- We are currently in a crisis of leadership, having lost faith in our leaders. In the Minha service on Yom Kippur, we read the Book of Jonah. Jewish tradition seeks to conclude Yom Kippur with the universal story of the prophet whose response to the call to prophecy, to leadership, is: "And Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from before God" (1:3). Why did Jonah flee? And from what?
The midrash in Pirkei d'Rabbi ...
