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Stephen Slater

Oct 14, 2023, 5:04 AM

Why is condemning the massacre in Israel so hard?

The inability to correctly frame the moral nature of the massacre in Israel on Simchat Torah of 2023, exposes the moral corruption of post-colonial theory, and widely held contemporary beliefs about power, and the socially imposed limits to human...

Jan 15, 2014, 9:31 AM

Minister Gideon Saar has (unnecessarily) created a storm

Minister of the Interior, Gideon Saar has created a storm in Israel through by failing to process the claims of Africans who have been arriving in Israel since 2007. In his piece appearing in Israel haYom on January 7th, 2014, responding...

About Me

Rabbi Stephen Slater is the husband of the new Director of Hillel at the Claremont Colleges, Bethany Slater. I love being a rabbi and am passionate about inspiring the Jews to grow personally and spiritually through encountering Torah and Avodah, Torah study and communal worship. Ordained in 2018, I have led congregations in Birmingham, AL and Glens Falls, NY, and Columbus, Ohio. I met my life long hevrutah (study partner), Bethany, in an undergraduate philosophy class. In my free time, I love to read and write non-fiction. I especially love going on adventures with my two young children, Anav (8) and Emet (5). I studied Hebrew and Second Temple Jewish literature and history at the Hebrew University. Primary influences for me intellectually include the Hartman Institute, the Conservative Yeshiva, and Yeshivat Hadar. I am particularly inspired by a young generation of Jews who are seeking out a richer spiritual life, and are searching for something more in the Jewish tradition. I am so pleased that we now live in Southern California, and look forward to helping Hillel to develop a thriving center of Jewish life in Claremont.