Rabbi Graubart

Rabbi Philip Graubart is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth El in La Jolla, California.  He has published articles, reviews and short stories in many journals including Tikkun, Commentary, Midstream, Emek, Shma, Tomorrow, The Jerusalem Report, and Response.  He has been the regular book reviewer of fiction for The Jewish Advocate and The Jerusalem Report, and The San Diego Jewish Journal.  His monthly syndicated column won a Jewish Journalists Association award for commentary.  He has published three works of fiction: My Dinner With Michael Jackson And Other Stories, The Planet of the Jews, and My Mother’s Song.  His most recent book, a collection of auto-biographical essays called A Suicide Note, A Murder, was published this summer by Devora Press.

Rabbi Graubart was a senior vice president at the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, and has served pulpits in Northampton and Manhattan, while teaching at Smith College and The University of Massachusetts. He has a BA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. His MA is from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  He received rabbinic ordination at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He’s married to Rabbi Susan Freeman.  They have two children, Benjamin and Ilan.

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