17 Facts About Manis Friedman

Manis Friedman is a Hassid, rabbi, author, social philosopher and public speaker.

Manis Friedman is the dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies.

Manis Friedman is featured in the documentary films: The Lost Key, The Jewish Journey: America, and "Patterns of Evidences".

Manis Friedman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1946 to a Hasidic Ashkenazi Jewish family of Kohanim.

Manis Friedman's father, Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Friedman, was a son of Rabbi Meir Yisroel Isser Friedman, the Krenitzer Rov.

Yaakov Moshe Manis Friedman was later arrested and tortured by the Soviet Czechoslovakian authorities due to his work with the Vaad Hatzalah, rescuing Jewish children from the Soviet Union.

Manis Friedman's mother was Miriam Friedman, a descendant of the Baal Shem Tov.

Manis Friedman received his rabbinic ordination at the Rabbinical College of Canada in 1969.

Manis Friedman has served as the school's dean since its inception.

Manis Friedman briefly served as senior translator for Jewish Educational Media, Inc.

Manis Friedman has lectured in cities throughout the US, as well as London, Hong Kong, Cape Town, and Johannesburg in South Africa, Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, and a number of South and Central American cities.

Manis Friedman later clarified that this was meant only in the case where they were using "men, women, and children" as weapons of war.

Manis Friedman is the most popular rabbi on YouTube, with over 450,000 subscribers as of February 2024.

Manis Friedman is the brother of the Jewish singer Avraham Fried and father of Jewish singer Benny Friedman.

Manis Friedman uses an anecdote of a young man who asked about going camping with a female friend.

Rabbi Manis Friedman explained that we should never try to explain why the Holocaust happened.

Manis Friedman quotes Friedman saying that a woman "violates herself" if she were to refrain from having children and that birth control is a "violent violation of a woman's being".