The synagogue currently has approximately 180 member families and is located on HaRa'az St, on the campus of "Yeshivat Hadarom" in Rehovot, Israel. We are basically a shul that also serves as a community center for the English-speaking, as well as the Israeli modern orthodox Jews in Rehovot. As such, the shul maintains various committees and holds lectures and social activities for the benefit of the larger Rehovot community.

Our current president is Shimon Krausz.

You can call our computerized phone information system at 972-8-946-0876 to listen to any special announcements. The same computer automatically calls all shul members when information must be passed on quickly.

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Women in Leadership Positions -- Lecture given by Prof. Aryeh A. Frimer (11 mb)

The lecture presents various halakhic perspectives on the question of women in communal leadership roles in the contemporary period. The talk concludes with a discussion of the issue of electing women as synagogue presidents.

Rabbi Prof. Aryeh A. Frimer is The Ethel and David Resnick Professor of Active Oxygen Chemistry at Bar Ilan University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University and his Rabbinical Ordination from Rabbi Yehudah Gershuni zt”l, Yeshivat Eretz Israel, Brooklyn N.Y. In addition to his scientific work, Rabbi Frimer has published more than 30 Torah articles and lectured internationally on various aspects of Jewish tradition and Halakha, but most prominently on the Status of Women in Jewish Law.