RabbiShmuel Kaminetsky | |
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Personal life | |
Born | 1965 (age 59–60) Kfar Chabad, Israel |
Religious life | |
Religion | Judaism |
Shmuel Kaminetsky (born 1965) is an Israel-born rabbi and has been the rabbi of Dnipro and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast since 1990.
Biography
Shmuel Kaminetsky's parents emigrated from the USSR to Israel due to Soviet religious persecution in 1946. Kaminetsky was born in Kfar Chabad, Israel, in 1965.
From 1978 to 1981 he studied at the yeshiva of the city of Lod. In 1981 he went to the United States where he graduated from the Lubavitcher hassidic Rabbinical College of America in New Jersey.
In 1989, he married Hanna Lipsker; they had six daughters and three sons.
Focus magazine listed him as an agent of foreign influence.
References
- "Днепропетровск: Шмуэль Каминецкий - Федерация еврейских общин Украины". fjc.org.ua. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
- "Головний рабин Дніпропетровська ознайомив ізраїльських дипломатів з життям єврейської громади". Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- "Агенты влияния на Украину - ФОКУС". Фокус. 20 December 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
External links
- official biography
- Chief Rabbi of the Dnieper Shmuel Kaminetsky received an award from the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council
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