by Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg, Rabbi Noah Gradofsky, Rabbi David Novak, Rabbi Gershon Bacon, Rabbi Baruch Melman, Rabbi Leonard Levy, Rabbi Moshe P. Weisblum, Rabbi Jeffrey Miller, Recommended by UTJ and Rabbi Steven Saks
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Bruce Ginsburg is the Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere, NY. A product of Boston University, New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, he holds a doctorate in Hebrew literature. Known for his decades-old activism on behalf of Israel, Soviet Jewry, and intra/interfaith cooperation, he has served both as president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis and as president of the Union for Traditional Judaism. His essays have appeared in Newsday, the Christian Science Monitor, the Jerusalem Report, and other publications. He and his wife, Rachel, moved to Israel in the summer of 2022.