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Recovery with Dr. Kerry Olitzky and the Journey of Wicca with Belladonna Laveau

Jan 27, 2023

The Interfaith Roundtable is sponsored by The Andrew K. Coffman Funeral Home and F&M Trust.
 
Dr. Kerry Olitzky joins Rabbi Mark and Elizabeth to discuss how he is helping recovering addicts and how fundamental Jewish principle's can help and transform recovering addicts. Dr. Olitzky is the former executive director of Big Tent Judiasm  and also happened to be Rabbi Mark's professor back at Hebrew Union College. Dr Olitzky is a prolific author penning over 75 books on Judiasm as well as children's books. The principles discussed in this episode are all outlined in his book Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery.
The second guest on today's show is Belladonna Laveau who is a practicing Wiccan and is Matriarch and Archpriestess of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church International. She is also the Dean of an online Wiccan College Woolston-Steen Theological Seminary which is the first and only Wiccan sponsored College. Laveau unpacks her journey to Wicca and hardships she's faced because of her religion. She dispels popular misinformation on the belief and shares how there is common ground in Wicca with many other popular religions.
 
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