Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, compassionate voice in the Orthodox world, dies in road accident at 43
The Monsey, New York resident was an early and outspoken voice about LGBTQ inclusion in the Orthodox Jewish community
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Since Vanity Fair released the “Call Me Caitlyn” cover on Monday, you’ve probably seen a flurry of comments about it on social media: some full of “YAAAS GIRL” positivity, and others spouting some variation on “This is still a man named Bruce Jenner and there’s not a feminization surgery or Annie Leibovitz photoshoot in the…
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Rabbi on the Beach from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. Eliyahu Fink is the spiritual leader of Pacific Jewish Center along the Venice boardwalk in California, an Orthodox rabbi who so inspires his eclectic congregation that he was named one of the Forward’s Most Inspiring Rabbis of 2014. When Martyna Starosta, our digital media producer,…
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“Our mission is to provide the maximum number of positive Jewish experiences to the maximum number of people,” said Eliyahu Fink, 33, the rabbi of the Pacific Jewish Center in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles. Through smart use of social media and open-minded outreach, Fink promotes a fresh take on Orthodox Judaism. Fink,…
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Aaron Fink likes to tell an anecdote about his oldest son: When Eliyahu Fink was in grade school, he discovered an error in ‘The Little Midrash Says,’ a children’s book about weekly Torah portions. The precocious child sent a handwritten letter to the author, asking him why he apparently confused the dates on which God…
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