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Come celebrate Chanukah with some learning and discussion with visiting Masorti leader, Rav Barry Schlesinger of Kehilat Torat Hayyim in Herzliya.

Where:          Beth Hillel-Beth El, Chapel and Chapel Patio
When:           Thursday, December 2^nd,  7:00-8:30pm
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 Rav Barry began life on a path very different from both the rabbinate and the Conservative Movement. He grew up in a modern Orthodox family in Englewood, NJ, and moved to Israel in 1972.  After graduating form Bar Ilan University, he and his wife Shira settled in Tzfat, where he was Director of Project Renewal and Director of the Sector Community Center in Tzfat’s Cana’an Neighborhood. He served in the IDF between 1978-1981.  He later became director of the Moross Community Center in the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. In 1993, he enrolled in the Schechter Institute’s MA program in informal education. This experience led him ultimately to the Schechter Rabbinical School where he received S’micha in 2001.

Since 2001, he has served as Rabbi of Kehilot in Jerusalem, Teaneck NJ, Ottawa and Philadelphia. He also served two terms as President of the Israeli Rabbinical Assembly of Masorti Rabbis.  In August 2017, Rav Barry and Shira joined Kehilat Torat Hayyim in Herliya.

 Shira and Barry are the parents of six children and as of now, have twelve grandchildren, “Kein Yirbu”.