Building Strong Communities By
Training Strong Communal Rabbis
barkai trains rabbis

Barkai certifies Israeli rabbis in counseling, abuse recognition, sensitivity training,
mediation and more. Armed with these pastoral skills, rabbis are better equipped to
support, sustain, and provide for their community’s spiritual and familial health.

Building Strong Communities By Training Strong Communal Rabbis
barkai trains rabbis

Barkai certifies Israeli rabbis in counseling, abuse recognition, sensitivity training, mediation and more. Armed with these pastoral skills, rabbis are better equipped to support, sustain, and provide for their community’s spiritual and familial health.

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barkai trains rabbis

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Learning How to Communicate in 2017

commCohort 3 rabbis as well as the alumni recently participated in a day and a half of sessions on how to best communicate in the modern age with a focus on social media. The first session was with Jewish Home Knesset Member Betzalel Smotrich who spoke to the rabbis about working and speaking with the media. Other sessions included writing popular Torah articles for the modern age with Rabbi Chaim Navon, a leading Dati-Leumi rabbi, who writes a weekly column in the Israeli newspaper, Makor Rishon and has a large Facebook following. The rabbis wrote articles that were then critiqued by Rabbi Navon.

The Barkai Center for Practical Rabbinics aims to improve the fabric of Israeli society by intensively training Israeli rabbis in all aspects of communal rabbinics so that they can lead their communities to a more meaningful connection with Judaism and act as a unifying force in Israeli society.

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