Since becoming the senior rabbi five years ago, Frimmer has made inclusion a daily target.

Long before he came to the Orthodox community of Beth Jacob in Beverly Hills in 2009, Rabbi Kalman Topp had a different career plan.

Since 2019, Rabbi Lutz has been serving as the interim leader of synagogues in Los Angeles and Orange counties as needs have arisen.

Orthodox Judaism is not usually seen as a place where women are accepted into the clergy. But B’nai David-Judea’s Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky is working to change that stereotype:

Entering the rabbinate without having a religious background is a daunting prospect, one that could be intimidating. Not to Rabbi Potok.

There were two features at camp that shaped his life.

Known to his congregation as Reb Jason, van Leeuwen has taken a rather twisty path to the rabbinate.

For Rabbi Ari Averbach, Etz Chaim’s senior rabbi, who grew up four miles away in Agoura Hills, it’s a trip back home.