December 11, 2006

R. Weinreb Moving On

The word around town last Shabbos was that R. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Executive Vice President (and figurehead) of the OU is moving on, either to a newly created position within the OU or to new endeavors. I think I heard this was reported in one of the mainstream Jewish news sources, but I haven't been able to find anything online.

Update: I have heard that R. Weinreb's replacement is someone from Los Angeles named Rabbi Weil.

Update: On page 51 of the December 8, 2006 edition of The Jewish Press, the following was printed:


Beth Jacob Beverly Hills is another west coast shul searching for a new rabbi. Rabbi Steven Weil will be heading to New York to take over Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb's position as OU executive vice president.

Posted by Greg at December 11, 2006 8:39 AM in | TrackBack
Comments

he won't be staying with the ou. i'm not sure i can say where he'll be going.

Posted by: adderabbi at December 11, 2006 8:43 AM

Greg

I'm sure that the OU has already blown a few gaskets at this leak in the JP. But, I have also heard that not only was the information premature, but inaccurate as well.

Posted by: Dr. E at December 11, 2006 12:24 PM

the fact that rabbi weinreb is leaving is old news. this isn't new. the fact that Rabbi Weil (brother in law of baltimore's Ethan and Cheryl Spiegler) is coming, is not entirely accurate. He hasn't fully accepted yet and there are other issues to work out. I am close to the negotiations, and I will try to update as much as I can when I know more

Posted by: nyfunnyman at December 11, 2006 2:28 PM

RABBI WEIL IS AWESOME WE LOVED HIM HERE IN DETROIT HE IS ALL THAT AND A BAG OF CHIPS. (YOUR NEIGHBORS BRO-IN-LAW DAVENS IN HIS SHUL IN LA AND HE SAID HE HAS NOT ACCEPTED THE JOB, HE WAS ASKED ABOUT IT, BUT NOT ACCEPTED IT AS OF YET)

Posted by: Ari G at December 12, 2006 11:20 AM