Testimonials


“Ben Kamin is an established and credentialed scholar on the Civil Rights Movement with a keen understanding of the inner life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”

— Prof. Clayborne Carson, director, Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Research and Education, Stanford University

“His memoir of the 1960’s, Nothing Like Sunshine, is an absolutely fresh take on the life and impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.–well-worth realization as a documentary.”

— Robert Kline, President and CEO, Enduring Freedom Productions, former Sr. VP of 20th Century Fox, and co-founder of Lifetime Television

“When Ben Kamin told me the story of his family’s transformation in this country, I remembered my own immigrant roots and understood. His account is told with wit and poetry.”

— Vice President Walter F. Mondale

 “Ben Kamin’s great gift of language is to make you feel included on a surging, disputatious journey across the public landscapes of America and the inner landscapes of American hearts.”

— Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize winning broadcaster and co-author of Flags of our Fathers

 “Rabbi Kamin’s teachings provide a spiritual lift to anyone who takes up this book. (Thinking Passover)”

— Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, former president, National Conference of Catholic Bishops

“I am always amazed at how Ben Kamin can take current news, cultural trends or timely happenings and force us to look at these things through the kaleidoscope of the ages to distill real meaning.”

— Crickett Karson, writer, editor, publicist

“I recognize Ben Kamin’s voice–tender, funny, indignant, thoughtful. It’s the voice of the ideal pastor, someone whose insights into world events or even the more important trivia of daily life are reliably worth pondering.”

— Karl Weber, author, book developer, editorial advisor to President Jimmy Carter

“No single writer living in America can communicate the black-white story more evocatively than Ben Kamin.”

—T. George Harris, founder of Psychology Today, former bureau chief of TIME-LIFE.

“Ben Kamin can talk to anybody about anything.”

— Congressman Louis Stokes, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (1925-2015)