Rabbinical Staff
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Rabbi Ilan Feldman
Rabbi
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Email: rabbi@bethjacobatlanta.org
Rabbi Ilan D. Feldman has served Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta since 1980, since 1991 as its senior rabbi. Rabbi Feldman has had the unique privilege of serving in the community in which he was raised, having succeeded his father who held this position for 39 years. The synagogue is the center of a thriving Orthodox community that has received national attention for its vitality and growth.
Rabbi Feldman played a major role in the development of Torah Day School of Atlanta in the mid-80’s and continues to serve as its Rabbinic Advisor; and he is the founder of the Atlanta Scholars Kollel, a group of 10 couples who have become highly involved in outreach and adult education to the broader Jewish community of Atlanta. Rabbi Feldman also serves as the Dean of the Atlanta Kashruth Commission.
Rabbi Feldman is also the founder of the Atlanta Chapter of JACS (Jewish Alcohol, Chemical Addicts, and Significant Others), Getting Chai, an outreach program for Jews and their families recovering form the disease of addiction. The program has benefited close to 2,000 Jews from all walks of life from all over the country.
Rabbi Feldman holds a Master of Science Degree in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University and was ordained in Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, Maryland.
He and wife, Miriam, are the proud parents of eight children and fifteen grandchildren.
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Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Associate Rabbi
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Email: rabbiy@bethjacobatlanta.org
Rabbi Freundlich was ordained at Baltimore’s Ner Israel Rabbinical College where he also earned a Masters of Talmudic Law with high honors. The Rabbi holds a Master of Science Degree in Professional Counseling from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Maryland. Most recently, Rabbi Freundlich served as a member of the Atlanta Scholars Kollel and was responsible for promoting personal and religious growth of community member families through individual family meetings, personal development classes and social programming, with special attention given to marital counseling and to parenting consultations.
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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Rabbi Emeritus
Email: menahem2@012.net.il
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beth Jacob where he was Rabbi from 1952 until 1991. For thirteen years he was the Editor of Tradition Magazine, the scholarly quarterly published by the Rabbinical Council of America. He is a former Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America where he also served as Vice President of its Beis Din (Rabbinical Court).
Ordained by Baltimore’s Ner Israel Rabbinical College, he holds B.S. and M.S. degrees form The Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from Emory University. Rabbi Emanuel Feldman served as Adjunct Professor of Jewish Law at Emory University School of Law, and as Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University in Israel.
He has written nine books: The 28th of Iyar, based on his experiences during the Six Day War; Jewish Law as Theology; The Biblical Echo: Reflections on Bible; Jews and Judaism; On Judaism; Tales Out of Shul; The Shul Without a Clock; Biblical Questions: Spiritual Journeys; and most recently Tales Out of Jerusalem. He is also the editor of Tehillim Eis Ratzon, a new translation of the Psalms.
He is the author of over 100 published articles in magazines and newspapers such as Saturday Review, The New Republic, The Jerusalem Post and numerous Anglo-Jewish periodicals here and abroad. He presently writes a bi-weekly column for the Jerusalem Post.
Since his formal retirement from the active pulpit in 1991, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman has been dividing his time between the United States and Jerusalem. In Jerusalem he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Rashi Translation Project of Jerusalem’s Ariel Research Institute, which has recently published The Ariel Chumash. Presently, he is on the editorial staff of the Encyclopedia of Mitzvot.