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 Rabbi Alejandro Lilienthal was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, South America. His parents immigrated to that country from Germany shortly before WW II.
The product of a Jewish home, Rabbi Lilienthal grew up surrounded by Judaism and Zionism, exposed to many different Jewish practices. Not surprisingly, the first visit to Israel in 1981 generated the desire to become a rabbi.
Teaching science was left behind, but the soul of a teacher is always there. 22 years after ordination at the Hebrew Union College -Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Lilienthal was still teaching: this time around about life in general and Jewish life in particular. Rabbi Lilienthal had four pulpits in his
career: Porto Alegre (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Waco (TX) and Parkland (FL).
Now, twenty two years later, together with his wife Sandra, Rabbi Lilienthal leads the Family Chavurah, a small independent Jewish community in South Florida.
The Jewish world has changed a lot in the past 20 years. Rabbi Lilienthal feels the chavurah format may very well be one of the more appropriate Jewish answers to this new era.
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