1. Joseph Telushkin was born on 1948 and is an American rabbi and writer.
14 Facts About Joseph Telushkin
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Joseph Telushkin has authored more than 15 books, including volumes about Jewish ethics, Jewish literacy, as well as the book Rebbe, a New York Times bestseller released in June 2014.
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Joseph Telushkin was ordained at Yeshiva University and studied Jewish history at Columbia University.
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Joseph Telushkin was raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Solomon and Hellen Joseph Telushkin.
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Joseph Telushkin attended Yeshiva of Flatbush, where he met his friend and future co-author for two books, Dennis Prager, in tenth grade.
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At university, Joseph Telushkin was an active leader of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.
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Joseph Telushkin was eventually listed by the KGB as an anti-Russian agent.
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An Orthodox rabbi by training, Joseph Telushkin served until its closure in December 2022 as Rabbi of the Los Angeles Synagogue for the Performing Arts, founded in 1972 by Rabbi Jerome Cutler.
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Joseph Telushkin is an associate of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and a former director of education at the non-denominational Brandeis-Bardin Institute.
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Joseph Telushkin is a Senior Associate with CLAL and is a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Book Council.
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Joseph Telushkin has been on the Newsweek list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America since 1997.
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In 2013, Joseph Telushkin was invited by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, to speak before the commission in Geneva.
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In 2014, Joseph Telushkin released Rebbe, which appeared on the bestseller lists of New York Times Best Seller list, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly.
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Joseph Telushkin wrote the episode 'Bar Mitzvah' on Touched by an Angel, guest-starring Kirk Douglas.