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Brief biography:
April 1, 2002, Mitchell Chefitz became the rabbi of
Temple Israel of Greater Miami, an 80-year-old center-city
Reform congregation serving the entire region with creative
Jewish programming for adults and family education. On March 30th, 2007, he became Scholar in Residence when Rabbi Jody Ruth Cohen assumed the rabbinic responsibilities.
He is the author of two novels and a collection of stories.
The Seventh Telling: The Kabbalah of Moshe Katan,
was published in 2001 by St. Martin's Press and was
a Los Angeles Times bestseller. The sequel, The Thirty-third
Hour: The Torah of Moshe Katan, was published the
following year. The Curse of Blessings, the
story collection, was published by Running Press in
2006.
For twenty-two years beginning in 1980 he was the rabbi
of the Havurah of South Florida, a non-denominational
fellowship that creates programming to fill the interstices
between synagogues and other established Jewish organizations.
The Havurah offers a variety of opportunities for learning
of Torah, Talmud, and Jewish spiritual discipline (Kabbalah)
in an egalitarian setting.
Mitch has served as chairperson of the National Havurah
Committee, editor of a nationally syndicated weekly
Torah column, and is a frequent teacher at Havurah institutes,
rabbinic conferences, and other gatherings with a focus
on Jewish renewal. He teaches on topics related to Jewish
spirituality, alternative religious community, and Jewish
family education. He is a past-president of the Rabbinical
Association of Greater Miami.
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