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Pini Dunner


Pini Dunner is the Senior Rabbi at Beverly Hills Synagogue, and the author of Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs: Episodes from the Margins of Jewish History.

  • The Sadiger Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Friedman
    The Sadiger Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Friedman
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    The Battle for the Court of Sadiger

    A Hasidic sect has maintained a regal aura through a century of turmoil and migration. Now a contentious succession threatens to bring a noble family down.

    byPini Dunner
  • The late Moshe Leib Weiser dances with a Torah scroll at a North London celebration in 2019. On the right is his friend the Stanislawer Rebbe, Rabbi Uri Ashkenazi, who also died of COVID-19 five months ago.
    The late Moshe Leib Weiser dances with a Torah scroll at a North London celebration in 2019. On the right is his friend the Stanislawer Rebbe, Rabbi Uri Ashkenazi, who also died of COVID-19 five months ago.
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    In Memoriam: Moshe Leib Weiser

    The rare-book collector and dealer, whose impact on the Jewish book world was immeasurable, died of COVID-19 at age 77

    byPini Dunner
  • Yechezkel Taub, the Yabloner Rebbe, in Kfar Hasidim, circa 1982.
    Yechezkel Taub, the Yabloner Rebbe, in Kfar Hasidim, circa 1982.
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    The Amazing Return of the Yabloner Rebbe

    An astonishing true story of a man’s encounter with fate

    byPini Dunner
  • The First World Congress of the World Agudath Israelin, Vienna, August 15, 1923.
    The First World Congress of the World Agudath Israelin, Vienna, August 15, 1923.
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    Rare Footage of the Chofetz Chaim Surfaces—From Fox News(reel)

    The influential rabbi takes a walk in 1923

    byPini DunnerandMenachem Butler
  • Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry sign at a rally. (YouTube)
    Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry sign at a rally. (YouTube)
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    Soviet Jewry Activist Jacob Birnbaum Dies at 87

    Mobilized student involvement in the campaign to free Soviet Jews

    byPini Dunner
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