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Category Archives: R. Gavriel Cohen
Decoding Rabbi Gavriel Cohen
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, Rabbi Gavriel Cohen is best understood as a boundary consolidator for upwardly mobile Orthodox families whose primary function is to keep serious observance intact without turning it into either isolation or ideological combat. Cohen’s role … Continue reading
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Israel is not sending its best into Chief Rabbinate. “Former Chief Rabbi Of Israel Heading To Prison”
Who would have thought that you can just buy your conversion to Judaism? NEWS: According to latest reports, a plea bargain agreement is being worked out by which former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yona Metzger will accept a prison … Continue reading
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Yosef K: My Conversion with Rabbi Gavriel Cohen 2007-2008
Yosef K. writes: I grew up in a Muslim family from Iran. Half of my life I lived in Kuwait, and the other half I was in the US. Even though my father comes from a very religious Muslim family, … Continue reading
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How Many People Convert To Orthodox Judaism Each Year In The USA?
I believe that conversions through Sephardic rabbis Gavriel Cohen and Samuel Ohana often run to $5,000, and through other Batei Din (Jewish law courts) about $2,000 all told. JewishHomeLA.com: Rav Gavriel Cohen, who heads a beis din near Hancock Park, … Continue reading
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Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger Charged With Taking Bribes
Rabbi Gavriel Cohen of Los Angeles is also charged with taking bribes. Rabbi Cohen told me today via email that these charges are “unfounded.” Reactions in the Los Angeles Orthodox community seem evenly divided between those who are surprised by … Continue reading
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Beit Din Of Beverly Hills Award Vacated By Los Angeles Superior Court
On July 21, 2005, the Los Angeles Superior Court vacated the award of the Bet Din of Beverly Hills (the psak of R. Gavriel Cohen). The dispute is within a family over the ownership of the synagogue Yad Avraham (12426 … Continue reading
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Tagged angeles superior court, arbitration award, la superior court, logic dictates that, los angeles superior court, neutral arbitrator
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Random Thoughts On The Torah Scroll Dispute
* Rita Pauker interview. Rabbi Samuel Ohana interview. * In an offer attached as Exhibit B to R. Ohana’s first pleading filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court in this case, R. Ohana offered to give Rita Pauker all four … Continue reading
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Tagged absolute confidentiality, confidentiality clause, los angeles superior court, sifrei torah, torah scroll, torah scrolls, torah torah
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Orthodox Conversion Programs In Los Angeles Working Well
According to what I hear, all of the Orthodox conversion programs in Los Angeles boast better than a 90% success rate (when success is measured by its converts staying Sabbath-observant after becoming Jewish). I’ve not encountered an Orthodox rabbi in … Continue reading
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Tagged conservative conversions, conversion controversy, conversion programs, conversion to judaism, orthodox conversion, orthodox judaism, orthodox rabbi, rabbi cohen
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Rabbi Gavriel Cohen’s Beit Din Of Beverly Hills
Rabbi Gavriel Cohen set up his Beit Din of Beverly Hills in 1983 with the approval of Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi. He has the support of such Sephardic rabbis as the current Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and the Sephardic gadol … Continue reading
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Tagged chief rabbi shlomo amar, chief rabbis, gavriel, lubavitcher rebbe, rabbi cohen, rabbi shlomo amar
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