RABBI OREN Z. STEINITZ, PHD
Rabbi Oren Z. Steinitz, PhD
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Rabbi Dr. Oren Z. Steinitz
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Rabbi Dr. Oren Z. Steinitz serves as the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas in Syracuse, New York. He was ordained in 2014 at the Mesifta Adas Wolkowisk Rabbinical Academy, and is a member of OHALAH Association of Rabbis for Jewish Renewal.
In 2020, after years of rigorous studying of the laws of conversion to Judaism and Jewish divorce, Rabbi Oren became the sixth Jewish Renewal rabbi to receive advanced rabbinic ordination as Dayan -- Mediator and Adjudicator of Jewish Law -- from Rabbi Daniel Siegel and ALEPH Canada's Integral Halacha Institute. He is one of a handful of non-Orthodox rabbis trained as a mesader gittin, an administrator of Jewish divorce. Rabbi Oren holds a doctorate from University of Calgary‘s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (Religious Studies, Communications and Israel Studies), researching the attitude towards the “Other” in Jewish and Islamic legal websites. In addition, he holds BA and MA degrees from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). He taught at the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University and The ALEPH Ordinations Program as well as in different synagogues and Jewish Community Centers. His fields of expertise include the history of Jewish-Muslim relations; modern Jewish fundamentalism; Jewish and Islamic Law; and the religious online world. |
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