THIS BELONGS in the “you-never-know-what-the-future-may-bring” department. Leor Sinai started out as a New York City nightclub promoter. Today, he is a rabbi and the co-executive director of JNF’s Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI.) It’s a career path he would never have imagined as a teenager and early college student, but one that now seems perfectly suited for his personality and passion. Sinai (pronounced the Hebrew way, “see-nigh”) was born in New York in 1975 to Israeli parents. “My grandfather fought in Israel’s War of Independence, was injured fighting for the defense of Jerusalem. My mother was born in Poland, post-war. Her parents, who were also Holocaust survivors, stayed in Poland. She came to Israel at the age of three. Essentially, they’re both Israeli.” Sinai’s […]
Rabbi Sinai from Brooklyn directs Israel’s Muss high school for Diaspora kids
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