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Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff
American rabbi and historian
Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff (born December 2, 1937) is an Israeli-American professor of rabbinic literature at Yeshiva University's Caroline & Joseph Gruss Institute in Jerusalem.[1]
Biography
Rabbi Rakeffet attended Bnei Akiva as a youth.
Meir Kahane was one of his madrichim (counselors).
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Rabbi Rakeffet met his future wife Malkah while giving a shiur at Bnei Akiva.[2]
Rabbi Rakeffet started his career in 1961 as a pulpit rabbi at Lower Merion Synagogue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.[3] In 1962, he moved from Lower Merion to become the spiritual leader of the first Orthodox synagogue in suburban Essex County, Congregation Beth Ephraim of Maplewood and South Orange, New Jersey.
During that time, he also served as a high school rebbe at the Manhattan Talmudical Academy of Yeshiva University. In 1969, he moved to Israel and worked as a Staff Editor for the Encyclopaedia Judaica.[4] He