There aren’t many people who deliver babies in the morning and sit in on municipal meetings that same afternoon. But Dr. Pedram Bral isn’t one to follow the usual script. For close to 30 years, Dr. Bral has built a reputation as a top-tier obstetrician-gynecologist, specializing in minimally invasive and robotic gynecologic surgery. At Maimonides…
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Rabbi Dr. David Shabtai doesn’t just talk about the overlap of Judaism, medicine, and ethics—he lives it. As the rabbi of the Sephardic Kehillah at Boca Raton Synagogue and a rebbe at Katz Yeshiva High School of South Florida and Hadar High School for Girls, he brings halacha to life in both the beis medrash…
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Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein has a PhD. from Harvard, studying early modern commentaries on Pirke Avot. An alumnus of Har Etzion (1982), Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein has served in the community rabbinate and in educational roles at the high school and adult level. He is an author of Jewish fiction and non-fiction, most recently We’re Missing…
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From Wikipedia: Rabbi Dr. Yakov Meir Nagen (born June 17, 1967; Hebrew: יעקב מאיר נגן) is an Israeli Rabbi and author. Nagen teaches at Yeshivat Otniel and has written extensively about Jewish philosophy and Talmud. He is a leader in interfaith peace initiatives between Judaism and Islam and in encounters between Judaism and Eastern religions. Nagen is also the Director of the Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue and the Beit Midrash for…
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One of the main researchers in restoring Tekhelet, though his findings suggest hyacinth blue which is achieved by heating/boiling the strings versus exposing it to sunlight. From tekhelet.info: “This site is devoted to information about scientific and Jewish research regarding tekhelet תכלת, the ancient dye that was made in the Mediterranean lands for dyeing wool and silk.…
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R’ Moshe David Tendler is the son-in-law of R’ Moshe Feinstein ZT”L, professor of biology/rosh yeshiva at YU, and medical expert. He is someone who goes “against the grain” in medical opinion (such as using a tube for Metzitzah b’Peh), and is one Rabbi who has visited the Temple Mount multiple times in the past.…
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There aren’t many people whose name belongs in both a beis medrash and a rehab center — but Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski somehow did it. He brought Chassidus into the language of psychiatry in a way that didn’t sound borrowed or tacked on. It just… fit. If you’ve ever met someone who swears a…
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