Rabbi Roth, being related to Baruch Sterman, has been an early adopter of Techeiles, and distributes wholesale string sets across North America to various Judaica stores. From the Jewish Link: Rabbi Roth hails from Brooklyn, and was ordained in 1972 by the Brooklyn Rabbinical Seminary. He has been a resident of Passaic for the past…
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Former Rabbi, Congregation Adas Israel of Hamilton, Ontario and Founder, Hamilton Hebrew Academy. Father of Rabbi Daniel Green. He passed away on July 17, 2018 at the age of 84. Life and Career Highlights Birth & Early Life: Born in Montreal in 1933. Ordination: Ordained at Yeshiva University in 1958. Congregation: Appointed rabbi of the…
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Hillel Fuld will tell you upfront: he comes from a family that sweats. Not metaphorically — actually, physically, chronically. And for most of his adult life, that was reason enough to skip the mitzvah of tzitzit almost entirely. One more layer under his shirt in the Israeli heat wasn’t happening. He’s said as much himself,…
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Rabbi Brendan Stern serves as Assistant Rabbi of Hendon United Synagogue in London. A native of Sydney, Australia, he learned at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel, where he was part of the class of 2006, and later received Yoreh Yoreh semichah from Rav Zalman Nechemya Goldberg zt”l. Rabbi Stern is known for clear, careful Torah…
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The new rabbi of Mizrachi in Melbourne wears Techeiles. Mizrachi of Melbourne is the biggest shul of the city with thousands of members and multiple Shabbos minyanim (about 5). From https://rabbisacks.org/people/daniel-epstein/: Rabbi Daniel Epstein was the Senior Rabbi at The Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London’s West End from 2021-2025. Born and raised in London, Rabbi Daniel…
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A talmid of R’ Hershel Schachter. Rabbi Trump recently claimed that he was learning in the Skokie Kollel with the YU Kollel and he learnt about Techeiles under Rav Chaim Twerski, who is the Rosh Kollel in Skokie Yeshiva. From the OU: Rabbi Ya’akov Trump serves as the Rabbi of the vibrant community of Young…
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His own words: “I began playing football at the age of eight. By my junior year in high school, recruiters from the University of Minnesota, Ohio State, North Carolina State, University of Arizona, and Notre Dame were watching me with apt interest. The legendary Woody Hayes from Ohio State University made the biggest impression on…
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Itamar Ben-Gvir did not come into public life through the usual yeshiva-world track, and he did not arrive looking polished. He came in through protest, confrontation, and the nationalist right. Born on May 6, 1976, in Mevaseret Zion, he grew up in a secular Mizrahi family with Iraqi and Kurdish roots. During the years of…
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Rabbi Joseph Dweck has never sat comfortably in a neat label. People pick up on that, and they don’t tune him out. He was born in Los Angeles in 1975, right into the Syrian crowd there—same shuls, same families, same voices you hear at every simcha. That’s the world he grew up in. Later he…
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Born in Brooklyn and raised in Eretz Yisrael from age nine—first in Kedumim, then Ma’ale Adumim and Har Nof—Rabbi Avi Berman carries both an American spark and an Israeli grit into his work. He went through high school at Ohr Etzion’s Hesder Yeshiva in Shilo, served in the IDF, and then stayed on for four years of semicha study…
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