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.
He’s a globetrotting mohel, serves as a dayan (judge of a Jewish court) and he launched the Jewish French Community Center.
Clearly, she loves her chosen path.
When Rabbi Daniel Freedman returned to Temple Akiba in the spring to oversee the Culver City Reform synagogue’s religious school program, he brought with him new, groundbreaking viewpoints.
When she was 45, the London-born Silver gave up her career as an attorney and law professor in England to enter rabbinic school in America.
“Camp was where I felt like I could be Jewish.”
Starting Sept. 1, he will assume a part-time role for the next two years. Then he becomes rabbi emeritus.
The Chicago native has been a familiar face at the Modern Orthodox synagogue in the heart of Pico-Robertson, davening and teaching there for a dozen years.
The path of Rabbi Aron Teleshevsky — the co-director, with his wife, Mushka, of the Chabad of Playa del Rey — has been as clear as a star-lined sky on a summer night.
Elchonon Cohen, the new associate rabbi at The Community Shul (TCS), cannot really be considered “new.”
