As Assistant Director of Israel Education for the Jewish Federation, Rabbi Micah Miller has a unique job: making friends for Israel in the non-Jewish school world by leading educators on an annual trip to the Jewish state.
Rabbi Moshe Esakhan’s motto is straightforward and practical: “Marry before 30.“
“I want to make it a hub for other communities to join.”
“The best part is that, God willing, this story is going to continue.”
When she stepped up to the pulpit of Congregation Kol Ami on July 1, Rabbi Lindy Reznick, “a big-city girl” who spent the last five years in small-town Redlands, was sure this is where she belonged.
For the last three years it has been nearly impossible to secure a seat in Rabbi Daniel Levine’s course on major Jewish texts. Even so, UC Irvine chose not to renew his contract last spring.
The newest creation by the school’s online arm, known as YU Global, has entered into a new partnership with Hillel Yeshiva High School while expanding its collaborations with the Chief Rabbi of England and Chabad emissaries.
The Lebovitzes and Goldberg-Polins have been friends for more than a decade
“The only way we Jews can grow and survive is by bringing new people into Judaism and the Jewish people.”
In 2010, when Rabbi Joel Rembaum retired after leading Temple Beth Am — his childhood synagogue — for 25 years, it felt like the end of an era. It was also the start of a new one.
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