Yaakov Taubes, at The Blogs

Apr 21, 2024, 7:01 PM

“Rabbi, we’ve been waiting for the Messiah all our lives. Wouldn’t this be a good time for him to come?” So asks Mottel the Tailor in a poignant and powerful scene from the film Fiddler On The Roof. The Jews...

About Me

Rabbi Yaakov Taubes is the rabbi at Mount Sinai Jewish Center in Washington Heights, New York. He serves as an assistant director at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University, and is a PhD candidate in Medieval Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies. He also teaches Jewish History in Yeshiva College.