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Category Archives: Rabbis
Rabbi Joshua Weisberg: Torah, Table, and the Inner Life
Rabbi Joshua Weisberg is a Canadian-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi, teacher, chef, licensed tour guide, and writer who has lived in Jerusalem for more than thirty years. He teaches Talmud, Hasidic thought, Kabbalah, and Jewish philosophy, and he presents these sources … Continue reading
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The Man on Every Page
The Shalhevet girls run the floor in a gym off Fairfax and the rabbi is on his feet calling the press. He coached this team to back to back national titles. He wears the beard and the kippah, he diagrams … Continue reading
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Gates of Hope: The Hero System of Rabbi Yael Aranoff
The room fills at a quarter past nine on a Sunday. Ventura Boulevard runs flat and bright outside, Encino in its weekend hush, the synagogue set back behind its own lot at 15739. Inside, the light runs softer than a … Continue reading
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Yet to Come: The Hero System of Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
On a Thursday night the email goes out. It lands in thousands of inboxes across time zones, a man in Melbourne reading it Friday morning, a woman in New Jersey reading it over coffee, a soldier somewhere reading it on … Continue reading
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Counting in Ones
On Pico Boulevard, west of Robertson, a study hall keeps hours that no business keeps. The first service starts at 5:20 in the morning. The last ends near 11:15 at night. Between them the room fills and empties and fills … Continue reading
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NY Post: ‘Prominent NJ rabbi allegedly sent graphic pic, according to explosive sex-assault suit: ‘Not great. But works’’
The New York Post says: A prominent New Jersey rabbi sexually assaulted a single mom — and even sent her a pic of his genitals, admitting, “Not great. But works” — before launching a cyber-smear campaign against her, court papers … Continue reading
Ten Minutes: The Hero System of Rabbi Amram Gabay
At 6:18 on a Thursday morning, October 29, 2009, a man in a hooded sweatshirt walks down the ramp into the underground garage beneath Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Congregation in North Hollywood and opens fire. Two men fall, both shot … Continue reading
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The Resident Alien: A Hero System Essay on Rabbi Natan Halevy
A boy of ten sits with two documents. One is an Australian passport. The other is a green card stamped Resident Alien. He reads those two words and something in him goes cold. He is not American. He does not … Continue reading
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The Voice of Rabbi Yaakov Israel Ifergan
Rabbi Yaakov Israel Ifergan (b. 1966) — Known popularly in Israel as “The X-Ray” (Ha-Rentgen), Ifergan represents the rabbi as a charismatic ritual performer. Based in Netivot, his public appearances are spectacles of spiritual intensity. His performance style involves entering … Continue reading
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The Amnon Yitzhak Voice
Amnon Yitzhak (b. 1953) builds a voice out of the Yemenite street and the yeshiva study hall. He keeps the guttural ayin and het of Yemenite Hebrew, the pronunciation his Ashkenazi Haredi peers smooth away. That sound marks him. To … Continue reading
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