Rabbi Olivier BenHaim
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
Rabbi O left the corporate world to become the best rabbi I’ve ever had. He is an incredible teacher, and has made this 77-year-old science nerd a lover of history, and achieved the impossible: I now meditate most mornings! He married my partner and me two years ago, and when marriage equality passed in Washington he held another short ceremony to make it legal. Torah study is a delight as we try to apply it to getting ”unstuck“ in our daily lives. We are a small community, 104 families, but almost all our members attend services. A little teaching, a little music, a little meditation — doesn’t get better than that! And you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the story of Purim done by your rabbi impersonating Elvis!
— Carol Cohen and one other
Why I became the Forward’s Editor-in-Chief
- Alyssa Katz, Editor-in-Chief
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
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