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Can fish be family? When Rabbi Abie Ingber was a little boy, a fisherman friend named Joe gave his family a bucket of pike. Young Abie noticed one was still alive, and begged his parents to keep it in the bathtub. Days became weeks, and Abie cared for his fish throughout the winter. But when the weather warmed, and it was time for his "fish out of water" to go back the lake where it belonged, how could Abie say goodbye? Beautifully illustrated and charmingly told, this heartwarming, true story handed down through the generations beautifully expresses not only the bonds we forge with our animal friends but the importance of letting go.…mehr

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Can fish be family? When Rabbi Abie Ingber was a little boy, a fisherman friend named Joe gave his family a bucket of pike. Young Abie noticed one was still alive, and begged his parents to keep it in the bathtub. Days became weeks, and Abie cared for his fish throughout the winter. But when the weather warmed, and it was time for his "fish out of water" to go back the lake where it belonged, how could Abie say goodbye? Beautifully illustrated and charmingly told, this heartwarming, true story handed down through the generations beautifully expresses not only the bonds we forge with our animal friends but the importance of letting go.
Autorenporträt
Rabbi Abie Ingber served as executive director of the Hillel Center at the University of Cincinnati for three decades. He taught at Hebrew Union College and at Cincinnati's Xavier University, where in 2008 he established the Center for Interfaith Community Engagement. For eight years, he as an NPR commentator. In 2009, he traveled to Darfur to share a message of hope, instilled in him by his parents who survived the Holocaust. Indeed, he has advocated his entire life on behalf of social justice, raising his four daughters on their grandparents' values of love, compassion, and justice. In 2010, Rabbi Abie traveled to Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia with the same message. In the fall of 2012, he logged 24,734 miles as the keynote lecturer for the Cameroon Muslim Student Union and the Museum of Dialogue in Poland. Rabbi Abie co-created the 2005 award-winning exhibit, A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People, which toured eighteen cities before closing at the Vatican in 2015. In 2022, the Cincinnati Opera produced his Cabaret of Hope: Warsaw 1941. In his role as an educator, commentator, lecturer, raconteur, and now author, Rabbi Abie charts a course for meaningfulness in life. Reach the author at rabbiabie.com