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A History of the Congregation Beth Israel, Malden

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Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Rabinowitz


Rabbi Rabinowitz

These and other efforts to revitalize the community took on a new level of significance in 1997, when the synagogue hired Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Rabinowitz to lead the congregation. Rabbi Rabinowitz's credentials were impressive to those involved in recruiting him and his family. He attended the prestigious yeshivas in Philadelphia and Lakewood, in addition to a year of study at the famed Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Rabinowitz had been learning and teaching full-time at the Boston Kollel for the previous five years before taking over the pulpit at Congregation Beth Israel. With his vast knowledge of Torah and Jewish law, he quickly began to influence the long-time membership, as well as a small but growing influx of transplants from other parts of Boston and elsewhere.

Rabbi Rabinowitz has made it his highest priority to aggressively recruit new members for the community. Although he and the shul's Board of Governors realized this would be no easy task, the rabbi's reputation as a leader in the Torah-observant population of Greater Boston preceded him, and Beth Israel's membership has slowly begun to grow.