While many of his fellow 72-year-olds are reaching for the brakes, Rabbi Moshe Benzaquen is pushing the accelerator on his next challenge: making Aliyah in two years and building a yeshiva from the ground up.
Rabbi Natan Halevy, leader of the Sephardic congregation Kahal Joseph, grew up all over the map.
When Rosh Hashanah arrives the first week of October, Rabbi Mordechai Einbinder will turn 44 twice.
After an 18-year engineering career, her life abruptly changed.
You could be forgiven for thinking that Rabbi Robbie Tombosky lives in two different worlds.
The path of Rabbi Joshua Katzan, the leader of Venice’s Mishkon Tephilo, is a story that stretches back generations.
Now, in his 30th year as leader of the Conservative Kehillat Ma’arav congregation in Santa Monica, he recently reflected on his path to the rabbinate.
Her father died when she was an infant; when she was 23, her mother and 18-year-old sister died three months apart.
“How can you not go when you realize you can make a big difference?”
He has found music to be an effective avenue for Jewish day schools in general.
