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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most
Jon Cutler
My father was from Nigeria and my mother from Mobile, Alabama. I am a major in the USMC serving in the Pentagon. I married a Jewish woman. In 2008, I went to serve in Iraq and met Rabbi Cutler, then a Navy chaplain. He was the senior chaplain for Marine Air Wing in Iraq and…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Aaron (Ari) Raskin
First, I should tell you that I walk every Shabbos from the East Village of Manhattan to Brooklyn Heights just to learn from Rabbi Ari Raskin. His Torah insights, his ability to break open Hasidic texts are revelatory to all who come to hear him. It is his humanity, his care and gentle support offered…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Noah Zvi Farkas
In 2013, Rabbi Farkas gave a High Holiday sermon asking us to look around our community and take stock of the overwhelming number of homeless people living on the streets in southern California. A group of us from the synagogue rallied to his call and formed the Valley Beth Shalom Homelessness Task Force. Under the…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Hershey Novack
Walk into our campus Chabad for Friday night dinner, and it is likely that Rabbi Hershey will greet you by name — you and every other of the 150 students who attend weekly. He and his wife, Chana, go out of their way to know and be known by each and every Jewish student. WashU…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Jeffrey Fox
Rabbi Fox is, at the age of 40, Rosh Yeshiva, head of school. His career has put him in the position of many firsts. He was the first student to courageously attend a new rabbinical school, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and after seven years in a pulpit in New Jersey, he became the first to head…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Avram Mlotek
At one Friday night dinner hosted by Base DWTN, Avram Mlotek said that back in early 20th-century Poland, around his grandparents’ Shabbos table, the whole family regrouped. Traditionally, all the relatives — the Communist brother, the Socialist sister, the Hasidic cousins and the secular cousins — came back to the Shabbos table. This Shabbos table…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Ruth Balinsky Friedman
After Belda Lindenbaum — champion of women’s Torah scholarship — passed away, Ruth delivered a passionate, gratitude-filled eulogy from the bimah. My young daughter, who learns with Ruth weekly, turned to me and asked, “Why is it such a big deal for girls to learn Torah?” With enormous pride at the chutzpah of the question,…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Larry Rothwachs
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs is a tzaddik. To look at him, you see a handsome, diminutive, traditional-looking Orthodox Jew. He answers questions with wisdom and compassion, and when something is out of his area of expertise, he humbly defers to those upon whom he relies for counsel. Rabbi Rothwachs typically shares our life cycle events, as…
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Prosecutors Interviewed FEGS Board Members and Former Staff
Government prosecutors have interviewed board members and former employees of the bankrupt Jewish social service agency FEGS amid ongoing investigations of the group’s financial collapse. The new details of the investigations, which come from newly-released transcripts of a bankruptcy court hearing, show that the government probes are ongoing, more than a year after FEGS’s baffling…
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At Embassy’s Independence Day Party, a Chance to Signal Mended Fences
After having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, top representatives of Israel and the United States found themselves on the same stage Thursday night at the Israeli Embassy , celebrating the Jewish state’s 68th birthday. Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador who orchestrated prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress last year, which was…
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Satmar Rebbe Rails Against Secular Education Bill; Moderate Groups Stay Silent
A powerful Hasidic leader has slammed a bill in the New York State Legislature that would enforce laws that require religious schools to teach secular subjects. Moderate Jewish groups that are normally vocal on religious education issues, meanwhile, are staying silent. The bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee in early May, is one of two…
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