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Category Archives: R. Steven Weil
Decoding R. Steven Weil
Written with AI: Through Alliance Theory, Rabbi Steven Weil is best understood as a centralized coalition executive whose primary function is to keep a large, internally diverse Orthodox alliance operational, credible, and externally legible without letting it fracture along ideological … Continue reading
Morey Levovitz Pushed Out Of FIDF, Steven Weil Pushed Back
How did Steven Weil get his job with FIDF? It helps to have a friend (relative? cousin?) by the name Elazar Stern who is a retired General of the IDF school from the Dati Zionist camp in Israel’s Knesset. Steven … Continue reading
FIDF Leaders Panic As Leaked Memo Exposes Deception, Waste
The two main characters in this scandal met at the Beverly Hills Orthodox synagogue Beth Jacob — Morey Levovitz and Rabbi Steven Weil. My sources say these two haven’t changed. They were ruthless in LA, they were ruthless with Beth … Continue reading
Second thoughts on this petition to take down Syria’s regime?
I email Professor Jonathan Sarna about this petition he signed in 2013 along with Leon Wieseltier, Joseph Telushkin, Shmuly Yanklowitz, Avi Weiss, Yosef Blau, David Wolpe, Eric Yoffie, Menachem Genack, Steven Weil, Haskel Lookstein, Mark Dratch, Jeffrey K. Salkin to … Continue reading
Blog: OU Featured “Sauna Bonder” Rosenblatt at Rabbinic Mentoring Events
From Frum Follies: Apparently, Executive VP Steven Weil thought otherwise when he organized the very first such event for the OU in February during the time between May 2008 when he was slated for the OU job and when he … Continue reading
Orthodox Union In-Fighting
A source says: “There was a huge fight that ended last year. Rabbi Steven Burg was supposed to be rising to a leadership role but was aligned with the losers and had to depart for the Museum of Tolerance. Rabbi … Continue reading
Civil War At Orthodox Union
It’s a soap opera. The infighting among board members led to R. Weil being forced out last spring and then getting back in this fall. It led to R. Burg being elevated last spring and then forced out this fall. … Continue reading
Newsweek’s List Of Top 50 Rabbis
Here you go. The list seems silly to me. The leader of the Reform movement, Eric Yoffie, at number two? He’s retiring. “5.David Saperstein—Having just completed his term as the only rabbi serving on President Obama’s White House Office of … Continue reading
Good Reviews On Steven Weil’s Stewardship Of Orthodox Union
Rabbi Weil has been running the OU for about 18 months. I’m hearing: Weil is doing exceptionally well at the OU. His strong organizational skills, exceptional speaking and teaching talents and leadership abilities have all come to the fore.