Rabbi Alan Lew, of Congregation Beth Sholom, died suddenly on Monday.

Alan also was a longtime member of the Steering Committee at Religious Witness With Homeless People, and an eloquent, passionate advocate for San Franacisco’s most vulnerable and needy citizens.

Rabbi Lew represented the Jewish community at St. Anthony’s educational forum a few years back, doing the presentation on Social Justice in the Jewish Tradition.

His family’s loss is shared by the community of faith and conscience in the City of St. Francis.

Somebody said once that there are only two groups of people in the world: the saints, who think they are sinners, and the sinners, who think they are saints.

I don’t think Hank Wilson would EVER have thought of himself as a saint, so, according to the grouping above he probably WAS one. And there is a lot more evidence.

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