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Effie Kleinberg

Apr 25, 2023, 12:10 AM

Over the past weeks and months, I have observed you flapping in the wind over highways, roads, and municipal buildings. You have been mounted on poles carried by hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of Tel Aviv...

Apr 18, 2023, 12:05 AM

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Israel is in a hurry

A Jew is meant to live with the belief that history can unfold and change in a moments notice, even if it takes thousands of years

Apr 6, 2021, 1:17 PM

If Tattoo Ink Could Speak, What Would It Say?

On this Yom Hashoah of 2021/5781, my thoughts turn to one of the more haunting symbols of the Holocaust: the death and concentration camp tattoos. I have embedded in my memory, the numbered tattoos I have seen on the...

Dec 20, 2019, 4:03 PM

What is the dreidel telling us?

Last week, my son came home from a birthday party with a "loot bag". Inside were a few dreidels (in Hebrew sevivon) to spin in anticipation of the upcoming holiday of Chanuka. I took one of the dreidels in my...

Dec 10, 2019, 11:13 AM

2,711 Pages of Talmud: Our Living Monument

"I wandered around and found Eisenman posing for pictures with the memorial as a backdrop. Excuse me, Mr. Eisenman, does the number of columns have any significance for you? "He replied that the number was not only incidental, but accidental....

Nov 20, 2019, 3:54 PM

When your child forges their own path

A parent once came crying to the local rabbi,"We are not a religious family, we do not keep kosher or Shabbat in the home, and now my daughter has decided to eat only strictly kosher and refuses to join...

Nov 7, 2019, 3:10 PM

So many leaders to choose from: Who to emulate?

Blessed are you, Lord, Shield of Avraham ~ Daily Amidah As Jewish communities the world over journey through the book of Bereishit, we travel together with the founding fathers and mothers of our people's storied history: Avraham and Sara, Yitzchak...

About Me

Rabbi Dr. Effie Kleinberg serves as Senior Educator and Program Director at Forum for Jewish Leadership and the Netzach Leadership Institute- organizations focused on developing the next generation of ambitious future Jewish leaders around the globe. Rabbi Kleinberg holds semicha and a doctorate from Yeshiva University and worked as a Jewish educator in New York and Toronto before making aliyah. He is the host "Daf In-Sight" a daily podcast sharing inspiration on the daily page of Talmud. He currently resides with his family in Ra’anana, Israel.

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