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Seth Farber


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Seth Farber is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi and historian, best known for his work helping Jews navigate the Israeli religious bureaucracy.

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Early life and education

Farber grew up in Riverdale, Bronx, New York, and is a graduate of New York University. He was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in 1991, received his Masters in Judaic Studies from Yeshiva University in 1995, and a PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2000.

Farber’s great-great-great-grandfather was the pre-eminent Central European Rabbi Moshe Sofer, better known as the Chasam Sofer (or Chatam Sofer).

Career

He was a teacher at the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts before moving to Israel.

Farber is widely known as the founder and director of ITIM: The Jewish-Life Information Center, an organization that aims to assist Israelis with the legal intricacies of personal status—marriage, divorce, conversion, and burial—which are administered by the Ministry of Religious Affairs in a manner that often leaves families bewildered, overwhelmed, and resentful. Farber is widely cited in the press on the politically fraught issues of personal status among Jews in Israel.

The New York Times called Farber a “pragmatic idealist” who believes that Orthodox Jews — including the rabbinate — and non-Orthodox Jews need to learn to “to trust each other” sufficiently to work together on difficult issues of personal status.

Personal life

Farber is married with five children and lives in Israel.

Books

  • Farber, Seth (2003). An American Orthodox Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston’s Maimonides School. Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England. ISBN 1-58465-338-8. 
  • References

    Seth Farber Wikipedia


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