Michael Lerner, a veteran character actor who received an Oscar nomination for his performance as an overbearing studio head in the 1991 film "Barton Fink," has died, his nephew, actor Sam Lerner, ...

Progressive Judaism has lost one of its true lions: Rabbi Michael Lerner, who died Wednesday at 81. May his memory be for a blessing. It’s hard to overstate the impact Michael had on progressive ...

Sam Lerner took to Instagram on Sunday to announce that his uncle had passed away the previous night at the age of 81. No cause of death was given. Sam, also an actor, went on to joke that Michael was ...

With the death of Rabbi Michael Lerner on Wednesday, we have decided to republish this piece, from April of this year, on a major part of his legacy: the magazine Tikkun. This article originally ...

A former ’60s radical, he made a home for Jewish progressives who felt shut out of the wider communal conversation. When Michael Lerner and his then-wife Nan Fink launched Tikkun magazine in 1986, it ...

Michael Lerner, who founded and edited a magazine that became a leading voice for American Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, died Aug. 28 at his home in Berkeley, California. He ...

Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played myriad imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in “Barton Fink,” the crooked club ...

I have read a number of obituaries for Michael Lerner, and they bring up memories of my friendship with him from the time he moved to Berkeley in 1964. He and I were graduate students in the ...

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He merged Judaism and progressive thought, becoming a prominent if sometimes polarizing leader of the Jewish left. Michael Lerner, a rabbi, psychologist and political activist who merged Judaism and ...