Yitzhak Buxbaum

[8][9] Manuscripts and drafts of The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov are archived at Cornell University Library.

[10] He told interviewers that as a young man, he identified as an atheist and felt disconnected from his Jewish roots.

But a time of intense soul-searching, and encounters with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, led him to devote his life to Jewish spirituality.

[20] In 2007, Buxbaum was one of six spiritual leaders from different faiths who opened the memorial celebration for Sri Chinmoy at the United Nations.

The Jewish Review: A Journal of Torah, Judaism, Philosophy, Life and Culture 4:3 (March 1991 / Adar 5751)