Building Jerusalem

Rachmiel Travitz is an ordained rabbi and a scholar of the Andalusian rabbinic tradition.

Charlie Solomon is an old friend of my grandfather’s, who grew up in India when it was still under the British Raj. He will turn 100 this July.

Yehuda Niasoff is a chazan, a shochet, and mohel (cantor, ritual slaughterer, and ritual circumciser). He is also a wedding singer, a medical first responder, and an amateur pilot.

Sam Benjamin bears the torch of a fascinating culture: the Baghdadi Jewish community of India. He teaches the traditional Iraqi method for reading from the Torah, and works at the Sephardi Synagogue.

Yaqub is a Jewish Sufi, mystic, and bookseller. He has studied under several teachers, including Reb Zalman Schachter & Kebzeh Sufi master Murat Yagan. Olam Qatan has moved to Terminal Tarbut at the First Station, at the other end of Emek Refaim.