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Name
  
Mario Rojzman

Spouse
  
Gisela Ludman

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Occupation
  
Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus

Parent(s)
  
Henri Guero, Rosita Londner

Education
  
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Rabbi Mario Rojzman is a bilingual Torah scholar born in Buenos Aires in 1962. A graduate from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Rojzman received the rabbinical ordination from the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in 1987.

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Biography

Rojzman is the son of legendary Yiddish stage-actors Henri Guero, and Rosita Londner. He grew up behind the curtains watching his parents perform for a worldwide audience. Following his graduation Cum Laude in 1988 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Rojzman became Rabbi at Bet El Community in 1990 where he served for eleven years.

Career

In 1991, during the Gulf War, he was invited by the World Zionist Organization to join the founders of Mercaz Olami, the Zionist Arm of the Jewish Conservative Movement. Between 1997 and 2000, he presided the Comparative Religions department at the University of Palermo. As a spokesman for human rights he has been featured as guest speaker at the Inter American Development Bank, UNESCO and World Bank. His activism on inter-religious affairs took him in special missions to Jerusalem, and Rome where he met with Pope John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI. Rojzman, together with Bishop Justo Oscar Laguna, co-hosted “Laguna-Rojzman: To keep us thinking”, a TV Show and “All Roads Lead to Jerusalem…and also to Rome”. Most recently, Rabbi Mario Rojzman was conferred doctorate honoris causa from the New York Theological Seminary in recognition for his service to the Jewish People and Social Justice.

Rojzman is one of two rabbis at Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus in Aventura. since 2003. He lives in North Miami with his wife Gisela Ludman, and their five children.

Published Works

  • “All Roads Lead to Jerusalem…and also to Rome”. Co/authored next to Monsenor Justo Oscar Laguna. ISBN 978-987-23790-0
  • Series of 52 episodes or "Parashiots" from the Torah. Produced by Heritage Film Project between 2011-2012, 5772 in the Jewish Calendar. The series were produced by the Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus in North Miami.The episodes were broadcast weekly on Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus website, on the institution's Facebook and Youtube.
  • References

    Mario Rojzman Wikipedia