A lot of rabbis are socially awkward, but Rabbi Steven Weil has a gift for making you feel important.
I went to Beth Jacob regularly in the summer of 2001. Rabbi Weil was always quick with a smile, a shabbat shalom, a handshake. He knew names.
I remember his brief aside that made me feel like a million bucks. "You’ve already heard this speech," he said to me once. Other times he said, "If you’re a writer," and nod his head at me.
For seven of the past eight weeks, Rabbi Weil has given up his pulpit on Saturday morning. Today Congressman Brad Sherman warned about Iran’s threat to Israel.
