Shalom Schlagman, at The Blogs

Jul 29, 2021, 8:32 AM

The last few months has heralded a reckoning for the Jewish community of Brighton, NY a suburb of the City of Rochester with the largest Jewish population in the Greater Rochester region. Since the recent primary elections for Democratic...

Jun 6, 2020, 12:57 AM

Reflections on White Coats for Black Lives Protest

In 1939 Billie Holiday first warbled the words “Southern trees bear a strange fruit/Blood on the leaves and blood at the root/Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze/Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” The now famous words of...

Feb 19, 2017, 4:33 AM

Creative leadership in tenuous times

Rabbi Mitchel Rocklin, a member of the RCA’s executive committee and my childhood friend, recently wrote an article in these pages in the wake of the OU’s decision regarding female clergy. He urges us in the Modern Orthodox community...

About Me

Rabbi Shalom Schlagman MD is currently completing fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the University of Rochester. He lives in Rochester, NY with his wife and three children.