Yehiel Grenimann, at The Blogs

Yehiel Grenimann

Masorti rabbi, author, human rights activist

Feb 1, 2024, 11:10 PM

A Film about Revenge – A response in a Time of War

Years ago, my much younger brother, Dr. Jack Green, started asking questions about my dad's past, about his activities as a partisan in Belarus during the second world war. With an age gap of 15 years between us, our...

Jan 19, 2024, 5:31 PM

The Days of the Messiah – Yamot Hamashiach?

The book cover - a picture that tells the story.

One morning in the midst of all the angst and distress at what is happening in this country, a friend of mine lent me a book he believed I would find entertaining, telling me as he handed over the...

Jan 11, 2024, 10:36 PM

An answer to my dilemma – morality and war

In my previous posting a few weeks ago I asked a question. How do we juggle the urgent necessity for a change of government in this country with the need to mobilize in response to the Hamas 7th October...

Dec 24, 2023, 1:21 AM

Where are we going now? A Dilemma.

This is my first venture into blogging on this site but I hope not my last. I am worried, as are many of my colleagues and friends here in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel about the direction of the...

About Me

Now retired, I am a member of the executive boards of Rabbis For Human Rights and Tag Meir and an active congregant of Kehillat Yedidya in Jerusalem. In recent years I have authored two novels: Far Away From Where? and The Partisan's Coat (Mazo Publishers), both of which deal with the issues I would like to address in a blog. Before retiring I worked for 12 years for RHR in the OPT, was the congregational rabbi of three Masorti kehilot (Shira Hadasha, Arad, Eshel Avraham Beersheba and Havurat Tel Aviv), the coordinator of Masorti conversion education I also taught at the Masuah Holocaust memorial centre, served as director of the Ot VeEd institute for Holocaust education and as a high school teacher in Jewish history and civics for ten years.

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