Rabbi Dr. Abraham Skorka is a chemist, rabbi and writer. He is the Rector of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer which trains Masorti/Conservative Rabbis, Cantors and educators in the Latin American Jewish Community. In addition, he is the Rabbi of the Masorti Olami Community (Worldwide Conservative Movement) Benei Tikva in Buenos Aires, Argentina. […]
Rabbi Yeshaya Dalsace is a Parisian-born Jew whose family has been in France for several centuries, sometimes actively taking part in French Jewry’s history. He is regularly asked to speak in various Jewish forums and at different Jewish centres, such as Centre Communautaire de Paris, Alliance Israélite and Akadem (online Jewish studies). He also takes […]
Rabbi Gesa S. Ederberg became the rabbi of Synagogue Oranienburger Strasse in February 2007. She is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Masorti (Conservative) rabbis. She was ordained at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, and she is the founder of Masorti Germany.
Rabbi Rivon Krygier was born in Brussels, Belgium, and was active in the Ha-Shomer ha-Ẓa’ir youth movement until his aliyah to Jerusalem in 1977. There he studied at the Hebrew University and at the Ma’ayanot Institute of Jewish Studies led by the nonconformist French rabbi Leon Ashkenazi. Rabbi Rivon was the first French-speaking rabbi to […]
Rabbi David Touboul always knew he was destined to become a communal and spiritual leader of Masorti Jews in France. As a Masorti Olami Schorsch Rabbinical Fellow, he received his rabbinical ordination from the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem in 2010. He then moved to Nice, where he serves as the rabbi of Maayane Or and […]
Rabbi Nowominski was born in Argentina. She received her ordination from the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer in December of 2012. She also holds a degree from the Open University in Israel in Humanities. For 25 years, Rabbi Nowominski served as a teacher of Jewish studies in primary and high schools. She is […]
In 2008, Rabbi Gordon accepted a call to become the Rabbi of New London Synagogue. Rabbi Jeremy Gordon has been a member of New London since the age of 1. He grew up, attended Cheder and celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at the Synagogue. Rabbi Jeremy has a first class honours degree in Law from Cambridge […]
Ten years ago Rabbi Ron Hoffberg left New Jersey for the Czech Republic, leaving a large and active Jewish community for one decimated by the Holocaust and kept in check by decades of communism. Based in Prague, today he presides over a small but thriving community as the country’s Masorti Olami, or Conservative, rabbi. The […]
Adam Schönberger was born in Budapest, Hungary. He majored in theatre studies, comparative literature and linguistics at the University of Pécs. After a year of studying at Bar Ilan University in Israel and Paideia Institute in Stockholm, he returned to Hungary and became involved in the Masorti young adult organization called MAROM Budapest (www.marom.hu/en). The organization has […]
Rabbi Yonatan Szewkis Sabah was born in Chile. He studied at the Chaim Weitzman Hebrew Institute of Santiago de Chile. He received a degree in Judaic Studies and his rabbinic ordination from the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano “Marshall T. Meyer”. He also taught several courses in Jewish liturgy. He worked in various communities in Chile and […]
Rabbi Adrián Gottfried received his rabbinic ordination in 1990 from the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer. MA in Jewish Education of the Jewish Theological Seminary; BA and MA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires; Organizational Analyst from the School of Social Psychology of Organizations, Argentina; He attended the prestigious Educators Graduate Program […]
Alejandro has been a rabbi for more than 25 years and from June 2008 has been the leader of th e Bnei Israel Jewish Cultural Society of Chile. Previously he led the Jewish community in Mendoza, Argentina and N.C.I in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is the Dean of the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer branch in […]
Rabbi Chaim Weiner received his smicha [Rabbinic Ordination] from the Schechter Institute of Judaic Studies in Jerusalem. He graduated in 1989, in the second graduating class of the Bet Midrash. He was National Director of NOAM in Israel for three years, (1988-91) before taking up the pulpit at the Edgware Masorti Synagogue (1991-98) in London. […]
Dr. David Breakstone is Vice Chairman of the World Zionist Organization, and a member of the WZO and JAFI Executives, where he is the official representative of MERCAZ Olami (the worldwide Zionist arm of Masorti / Conservative Judaism). Prior to assuming this position in the fall of 2000, Dr. Breakstone was the Director of Ramah […]
Rabbi Ernesto Yattah is the Dean of the Abraham Joshua Heschel Rabbinical School at the Seminario Rabínico Lationoamericano Marshall T. Meyer, where he also teaches Bible and Jewish Philosophy. He received his BA in Comparative Religions at Columbia University in 1987. He also received a BA in Bible and an MA in Judaic Studies from the […]
Rabbi Fabian Skornik has a degree in Management, with a concentration in Marketing. He did a postgraduate degree in management and conduct of educational systems at FLACSO. At the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary Marshall T. Meyer he received his rabbinical training, and complete his last year at the A. J. Heschel Rabbinical Institute in Israel […]
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1957, Jonathan Wittenberg moved to London with his parents in 1963. He was born into a family with a long rabbinical tradition going back several generations in Germany and Eastern Europe. Having earned his degree in literature at the University of Cambridge, he studied for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck […]
Rabbi Polakoff is currently the rabbi of the Israeli Union Center of Cordoba, Argentina. He received his B.A. in International Relations from the University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires and M.A. in Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is a graduate of the Melton Senior Educators Program Center of the Hebrew University of […]
Rabbi Michel Schlesinger has a law degree from the University of Sao Paulo. He completed his rabbinical studies at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem. Since 2005 he served as the rabbi of the CongregaciónIsraelitaPaulista-CIP. In 2012, during his sabbatical, he spent three months in New York, where he visited Jewish institutions and studied Talmud at […]
Rabbi Marcelo Rittner holds a degree in sociology from Belgrano University in Buenos Aires, Argentina and received his ordination from the SeminarioRabínicoLatinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer in 1975. Rabbi Rittner worked as a rabbi in CIP Brazil for ten years. In 1985 he became the senior rabbi at Bet El Synagogue in Mexico City. In 2001, […]
Rabbi Mauricio Balter was born in Uruguay. He received an MA in Jewish thought from the University of Haifa. He received his rabbinic ordination in 1991 from the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer. He attended the prestigious Educators Graduate Program at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and continued […]
Nilton Bonder born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is the rabbi of the Jewish community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his rabbinic ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1987 and received a doctorate in Hebrew literature. He is an author of books recognized nationally and internationally on various topics covering the Jewish […]