His jobs include:

* West Coast director of the Orthodox Union
* Funerals
* Army chaplin
* Rabbi of Young Israel of N. Beverly Hills

You know you've arrived if you get invited to any of these homes:

* Rabbi Marvin Hier Great conversation, fascinating guests
* Rabbi Ari Hier Charming erudite host
* Rabbi Elazar Muskin Great food, great Torah, a great long seder
* Rabbi Kalman Topp Understated rabbi who allows room for others
* Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky Gracious, stimulating
* Rabbi Robert Wexler Erudite, gracious, hospitable
* Rabbi Mimi Feigelson Great food, fascinating conversation
* Rabbi Dov Heller Great food, masters of hospitality
* Rabbi Nachum Braverman Understated empathic rabbi
* Rabbi Moshe Cohen Learned, funny
* Rabbi Boruch Sufrin Smart, funny
* Morey Levovitz Accomplished, generous
* Rabbi Yaacov Pinto
* Richard Horowitz Masters of hospitality, stimulating conversation
* Marc Firestone Masters of hospitality, low key, interested in others
* Peter Lowy – rich, generous, Australian
* David Sacks Funny, smart, unexpected
* Stuart & Enny Wax The gold standard for hospitality
* Sam Glaser Not your typical Orthodox home, this one is a lot of fun!
* David Suissa
* Monica Osborne
* Selwyn & Glynis Gerber Good Israeli wine, good food, Glynis owned Serravalle – the original gourmet Kosher meat restaurant in town
* Rabbi Marc Mandel
* Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
* Rabbi Lisbon (Chabad Bais Bezalel)
* Chazzan Netanel Baram
* Rabbi Sharon Brous
* Rabbi Bradley Shavit-Artson
* Don Etra
* Mark & Debbie Goldenberg
* Robert J. Avrech
* Mitch Julis
* Professor Aryeh Cohen
* Bob & Judy Millman
* Rabbi Aryeh Markman
* Rabbi Yitz Jacobs
* Rabbi Motti Shenker
* Fred and Susie Toczek
* Harold and Brenda Walt (Catering by Brenda!)
* Billie & Jenny Gelb
* Larry and Andrea Gill
* Jeff Fishman
* Richard Kellner
* David Nimmer
* Etan Cohen
* Steve Tabak
* David Nagel
* Ian & Lisa Tofler
* Steve & Daisy Cohn: Healthy food, hearty conversation

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An Orthodox rabbi calls me Sunday afternoon. "I'm watching Analyze This on channel 5. I met somebody last night who's a gay ex-Mormon. Very nice guy. He really liked me a lot. He's going to UCLA and is studying to be a psychiatrist.

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Read and watch Luke Ford's complete interview with Rabbi Rabbs.

6 p.m. We walk towards Pico Blvd and head west. He’s lived in this hood since 1987. “No other place has so many kosher restaurants in one place,” he says. “People get along better here than anywhere else I’ve ever been. The other side of town [Fairfax/La Brea] is more icky, sticky, stuffy.

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This coming Shabbat – Parshat Toldot November 21st, Rabbi Kahn will be the Scholar in Residence at the West Coast Torah Center 322 North Foothill Road Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Friday night dinner in the shul with a few families, followed by a shiur. "From Death to Life – a Jewish view of the afterlife"
Shabbat morning , a derasha before Musaf. , A shiur an hour before Minha at 3:15 PM "The mystical experience"

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It returns Oct. 18 in downtown Los Angeles. I believe this Torah study is aimed at the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgendered community.

I am sure Rabbi Eger's Kol Ami temple has more information.

Raphael's brothers Daniel and David were prominent rabbis in Los Angeles who moved out of town.

Rabbi Raphael Lapin (Facebook) was a rav for many years at a shul in San Jose. I believe he works in mediation.

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Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky (Bnai David) and Rabbi Elazar Muskin (YICC) love each other and their shuls do a lot of things together.
Bnai David's president David Diamond emails his congregation: As I mentioned from the bima this past Shabbat, we are looking forward to building on the already strong relationship and sense of community between our shul and Young Israel of Century City as Rabbi Kanefsky and Rabbi Muskin exchange pulpits this coming Shabbat morning. I invite you all, once again, to join me in greeting Rabbi Muskin and welcoming him warmly upon his arrival at B'nai David. Davening begins, as usual, at 8:45.

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From the New York Times:

Erin Dana Leib, the daughter of Naomi R. Leib and Dr. Martin L. Leib of Riverdale, the Bronx, is to be married Sunday to Rabbi Daniel Jonathan Smokler, a son of Carol S. Smokler and Irving A. Smokler of Boca Raton, Fla. Rabbi Irving Greenberg will officiate at the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan.

The bride, 30, is a candidate for a Ph.D. in social thought at the University of Chicago. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. She teaches Jewish philosophy and studies the Talmud at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in Manhattan.

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