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unusual facts about Shlomo Carlebach



Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Many greats got their starts at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute including Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi the founder of Renewal Judaism, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, and served as the springboard for the American Israeli Folk Dance movement started by Dani Dassa and continued by his son David Dassa.

Elisheva Carlebach Jofen

Her grandfather was Rabbi Joseph Carlebach, the last chief rabbi of Hamburg, and her father is Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who served as the mashgiach ruchani at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and author of the commentary on the Humash Maskil Lishlomo.

Joseph Carlebach

His wife and younger children were also killed during the Holocaust, one son Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who became the mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual supervisor" of students) at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, New York City after the war.

Lynn Gottlieb

In 1981, she became the first woman ordained as a rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement; she was ordained by rabbis Zalman Schachter, Everett Gendler, and Shlomo Carlebach.


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