Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz - The Rabbi Who Saved Sephardic Youth

Jews are being killed and you intend to sit by quietly?” cried Rabbi Kalmanowitz. “If it were your own sons, would you be so calm? Get up and do something! Come with me and we'll go to Washington right now…” This was the rabbi’s reaction when he heard news of rio...

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Rabbi Hecht Honored

Rabbi Abraham Hecht, Rabbi Emeritus of Shaare Zion Congregation, was recently honored at the Chabad of Thailand dinner. Rabbi Hecht served the Sephardic Community for over 50 years and has been long-known and well respected throughout the community for as long as anyone can remember. The dinner...

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Rabbi Isak Haleva, Chief Rabbi of Turkey

Turkey's Jewish community has installed Isak Haleva as Chief Rabbi, a half-millennium-old post created when the Ottomans conquered Istanbul. Sultan Mehmet II established the post of Hacham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) following the conquest of Istanbul in 1453. The 62-year-old Rabbi Haleva has been act...

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Rabbi Selim Ashkenazi

Worthy scholar and Talmud Torah teacher of Aram Soba (the Biblical name for Aleppo) and New York, Rabbi Selim Ashkenazi was born in Aram Soba in 1878 and gained experience as a sohet (ritual slaughterer) and as a teacher of boys in the Talmud Torah (Kitab in Arabic.) He was a very kind, unpret...

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