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Category Archives: Rabbis
The Zamir Cohen Voice
Rabbi Zamir Cohen founded Hidabroot, the Israeli outreach television channel and media network, and he serves as its public face. His whole manner follows from that role. He talks to the unconvinced. His audience is the secular or lapsed Israeli … Continue reading
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The Shalom Rosner Voice
Rabbi Shalom Rosner teaches like a man who has decided that clarity is the whole job. He runs one of the most followed English-language Daf Yomi shiurim in the world, and the reason is not charisma in the showy sense. … Continue reading
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The Efrem Goldberg Voice
Efrem Goldberg speaks and writes as a pulpit man built for a large, mixed Modern Orthodox congregation. He sounds warm. He sounds reasonable. He works to recruit you rather than corner you. Start with his diction. He mixes English and … Continue reading
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The Simon Jacobson Voice
Simon Jacobson (b. 1956) built his public voice on a single move. He speaks as a translator. For more than a decade he led the team that memorized and transcribed the talks of his teacher, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), and … Continue reading
The Akiva Tatz Voice
Akiva Tatz, the South African born physician and Orthodox lecturer, speaks like a doctor reading a diagnosis. He moves slowly. He poses a question, lets it sit in silence, then answers it in stages. The pause does work for him. … Continue reading
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The Assembled Rabbi: Personal Branding, Coalition Signaling, and the New Architecture of Rabbinic Authority
The personal website of an Orthodox rabbi is the most revealing artifact of how rabbinic authority has changed in the twenty-first century. It is not a résumé. It is not vanity. It is a compressed signaling device that speaks simultaneously … Continue reading
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Religion in Secular Society
Bryan Wilson’s Religion in Secular Society, originally published in 1966 and reissued with Steve Bruce’s commentary in 2016, notes that when science developed as a specialized profession and gained social prestige through demonstrable practical results, the clergyman was left as … Continue reading
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NYT: The Rabbi Whisperer: A Playwright Helps Sermon Writers Find Their Voice
Sarah Maslin Nir writes in the New York Times on Sep. 14, 2023: Michele Lowe, a former advertising executive, coaches religious leaders on how to write sermons with a little “zetz.” This is her peak season. Football players have the … Continue reading
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The Ten Biggest Names In The Rabbi Inspiration Industry
Grok says: This is the specialized world of Jews teaching rabbis how to inspire — focusing on homiletics (sermon coaching), rabbinic leadership development, pulpit presence, spiritual communication, and congregational inspiration. Rankings combine program scale (fellowships, master classes, certifications), reach among … Continue reading
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Rabbis Who Built Orthodox Judaism In Los Angeles
Per Alliance Theory: Rabbi Elazar Muskin Long-term coalition manager. Excelled at holding a broad donor-professional alliance together without splintering. High trust, low drama, strong institutional continuity. Rabbi Marvin Hier Alliance entrepreneur. Mapped Orthodoxy onto global Jewish politics, media, and power. … Continue reading
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