Rabbis of LA

Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback works with 1,600 families in his job as senior rabbi at Stephen Wise Temple.

Lake Balboa, the Van Nuys-adjacent neighborhood, isn’t exactly a thriving Jewish community … yet.

When Rabbi Dovid Gurevich was coming of age in Ukraine in the 1980s, he didn’t have many Jewish experiences.

When Rabbi David Block was younger, he took a strong interest in his synagogue, Young Israel of West Hempstead in New York.

Rabbi Sarah Barukh met a hospital chaplain for the first time around 15 years ago.

For many years, people would tell Rabbi Cheryl Peretz that she should become a rabbi … or they assumed that she was planning on becoming ordained.

Rabbi Kevin Lefkowitz has had a busy year.

Even though the past few years have been challenging, Kress has a positive attitude about everything he’s been through. 

The rabbi tries to fill every moment of his day doing mitzvot, and he makes Torah teachings as digestible for people as possible.

Perhaps Sufrin was always destined for greatness in the Jewish world of education.