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Rabbi Seth Farber, Itim Information Center
Age: 41
Marital status: Married to Michelle, five children
Job title: Founder and director of Itim, the Jewish Life Information Center
Hours a week worked:E About 70
www.Itim.org.il
Job Description: I oversee our education, information and advocacy center, helping rank-and-file Israelis navigate the rabbinate.
Education: Graduate of New York University; PhD, Hebrew University; and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. I'm also the rabbi of Kehillat Netivot in Ra'anana.
Salary: On a par with other non-profit establishments. That's all there is to say.
Aliya: From Riverdale, NY, 1995.
How did you come to found Itim? It grew out of my experience with the Israeli rabbinate.E When I began performing marriages in 2000, many secular couples were referred to me. In talking with them, I began to see how disenfranchised from the religious establishment they felt.E Much of the alienation people felt seemed to come from a lack of knowledge, so initially, I formed Itim as an information center, to provide average Israelis with what they most needed: information about the Jewish life cycle. Now we've sent out hundreds of thousands of free copies of our Life Cycle manual.
What does Itim mean? Seasons...