Rabbi Jonathan Porath
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PROUD AND PASSIONATE
Soviet Jewry - Past, Present, & Future
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  • "Exciting Jewish Activist and Public Speaker" - Elie Wiesel  [Read Full Recommendation]

  • "People who know Porath well and worked with him likewise believe that he too was an influential factor in changing Jewish history." - Greer Fay Cashman, Jerusalem Post Book Review

  • Dynamic and engaging group facilitator, Appeals to multiple audiences

  • Expert in Jewish-Diaspora relations [especially the Former Soviet Union]

  • Former Congregational rabbi, Wexner faculty member, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee [JDC, the "Joint"] Russian Department senior staff

  • 18th generation of rabbis in his family

  • Listed with the Jewish Book Council Network

"This book exceeded my every expectation." - Michael Berenbaum (Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University)


Rabbi Jonathan Porath is a proud and passionate Jew who always speaks from the heart and inspires. Thousands of people have been moved and motivated by his boundless energy and Jewish commitment. In his most recent book Here We Are All Jews he conveys his passion for the Jewish people through the lens of his 175 visits to the Jews of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Union, spanning more than half-a-century, from 1965 through 2019. It is a story which applies to people everywhere.

Rabbi Porath has community-wide appeal. Recent audiences have included:
  • Federations, community leaders and professionals
  • Adult and family education groups
  • Religious schools, Hebrew High Schools and Day Schools
  • Community groups, JCC's and lecture series
  • Teacher's Faculty Seminars
  • Synagogue weekends and Shabbatonim
  • Wexner alumni
  • Hillel students and academics
  • Catholic parochial school teachers and non-Jewish clergy
  • Women's Christian Bible Study Group
In addition, Rabbi Porath has been the Community Scholar in Residence at:
  • Greater Chicago/Midwest Region United Synagogue [month long visit]
  • Har Zion Temple, Philadelphia [month long visits, twice]
  • Jewish Federations of Champaign-Urbana, Quad Cities and Springfield, Illinois; Greensboro, NC; New Haven, CT

An article about his earliest trip to Russia in 1965, appearing in the Jerusalem Post for their Pesach Supplement.



CONTACT Rabbi Porath at:   jporath1@gmail.com   or 011-972-54-4979589 (in Jerusalem)



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