Mark Gerson

Mark Gerson is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who (along with wife, Rabbi Erica Gerson) is perhaps the world’s largest individual supporter of Christian medical missions. He is the co-founder of African Mission Healthcare and co-founder and Chair of United Hatzalah of Israel, the crowd-sourced volunteer system of rapid first responders. He is author of a forthcoming book on the Haggadah from St. Martin’s Essentials titled: “The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life.” Website: therabbishusband.com Twitter: @markgerson Podcast: “The Rabbi’s Husband”.

OPINION July 13

How I met Dr. Ruth, and how she changed my life

Mark Gerson fondly recalls how he met Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who died at the age of 96, and how she helped him and his wife over the following decades.

OPINION December 11, 2020

Mark Gerson: On Hanukkah, advertising the miracle

On streets where Jews live around the world, there is a display in windows or on doorsteps that is at once familiar and glorious. It is the Hanukkah menorah, celebrating a holiday that began at sundown Thursday.