Home. Fourteen years later, he’s leaving Shaar Shalom, “saying the hardest ‘yes’ I’ve ever said” after being offered a new position. Ask the Rabbi. “I’ve also started a process to have his U.S. visa denied,” Rosen joked.

But I know I can work well with younger congregants, university students and the children I’ll be teaching at the Talmud Torah,” he said. “When we were looking for a rabbi, he said he could do the job, with some exceptions. “. “There were too many ‘aha’ moments to mention that triggered the desire,” he says. Rabbi Kerzner echoed those thoughts.

“He was a young man, very amiable, great voice, got along well with everyone,” Schwartz recalls.

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The Shaar Founded in 1953, Shaar Shalom Congregation serves the needs of Halifax’s Conservative Jewish community. “Some were joyful, as families relied on me to help make a simchah unique and meaningful. “I can enter discussions which possibly a younger rabbi couldn’t.

He moved to Halifax in order to fill some rabbinical functions as spiritual leader of the congregation. She grew up in an Orthodox home but discovered Conservative Judaism in her teens and eventually chose to pursue a career in the rabbinate.
As rabbis have left for other pulpits, other rabbis are arriving to assume the leadership of the city’s two major shuls. “At the Shaar, the new rabbi [32-year-old Rabbi Raysh Weiss] is bringing a youthful vibrancy to our congregation.”. The Shaar Shalom members and board were very supportive when he asked to attend the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York on a full-time basis, planning to spend as much time as possible continuing in his role as spiritual leader in Halifax.

Rabbi Isenberg was High Holidays cantor for three years when Shaar Shalom lost its rabbi.

He was learning the theory of the rabbinate and putting that learning to use in the pulpit. Perlin was an obstetrician who served as a lay hazzan and mohel, and presided over weekly sabbath liturgies and ceremonial circumcisions. “It’s exciting for everyone in the Halifax community and the region,” said Mark Rosen, co-chair of the executive committee of Shaar Shalom Synagogue a Conservative congregation, and a past president of the AJC. The rabbi grew up in a rabbinical family in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., and studied at yeshivas for 11 years before branching into business as founder and president of Nightingale Health Care and Primary Response in Toronto. Rabbi Weiss chuckles and says, “I met him in the first week at JTS when I was having difficulty with my tfillin, which I had never worn, and he helped me.” The couple has a one-year-old  daughter. Halifax rabbi is leaving the only shul he’s ever served, The race to be the leader of the Conservative Party, Q & A with Ari Greenwald: Responding to a pandemic, Israel declares complete coronavirus lockdown on eve of Passover, Gantz says forming a unity government may take more time, Online classes up and running in Vancouver, To our readers: Everything has its season. He returned as many as 20 times a year during his studies, particularly for major holidays.