Rabbi/Musician R' Yonah Bookstein: Creating communities and reaching distant Jews with innovation and love

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein is the founding rabbi of Pico Shul, Rabbi at Camp Neshama, and director of Shabbat Tent. Rabbi Yonah has worked with Jewish communities across the globe inspiring a rebirth in Jewish communal life. During the 1990’s, he spearheaded efforts at Jewish community renewal in Poland. As a Campus Rabbi, he is credited with helping Jewish students launch successful Israel advocacy efforts on America’s most notoriously anti-Israel campuses in Southern California. The Forward has called Rabbi Yonah one of the “game changers” in American Jewish Life. He was named a Jewish Community Hero by the Jewish Federations of North America, and one of the Top Ten Jews in Social Media by NJOP. Rabbi Yonah is one of the most followed rabbis on Twitter and Facebook and blogs regularly on HuffingtonPost, JewishJournal.com and RabbiYonah.com. Rabbi Yonah lives in Los Angeles, with his wife Rebbitzen Rachel Bookstein, co-founder of Pico Shul, and their four children.

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