Meet Robert Kirzner, New Rabbi at Snellville’s Temple Beth David
Rabbi Kirzner was welcomed to the Temple in December 2012.
Robert Kirzner, a Toronto, Canada, native, always knew he would be a Rabbi. It wasn’t that he grew up in a particularly orthodox family, it was just something that was “always there.” He was the oldest of four children, and the only one who took the rabbinical path. Kirzner took what he considers a traditional approach to becoming a rabbi – he did his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto, then attended the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he received a Masters of Arts in Hebrew Letters, along with his ordination. His first year of studies, however, was completed in Israel between 1970-71, something that made a lasting impact on him. "Israel has a tremendous sense of living history," he…
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