We look forward to welcoming Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom to ASBI! Rabbi Dr. Shalom will be speaking the following times:

Kabbalat Shabbat Friday Night, 7:15 PM
"A Knock at the Door: From Destruction to Redemption"

Shabbat Morning Drasha
"The Journey That Has Not Finished: From a Shepherd in Ethiopia to a Community Rabbi of Holocaust Survivors in Kiryat Gat"

Post-Kiddush Shiur at 11:45 AM
"Halacha, Minhag, Masoret in the Ethiopian Community"

Afternoon Talk at the Home of Sharon Jedel, 5:00 PM
"Jews of Color in 2025 - Identity and Challenges"
Open to the community; please RSVP to s_jedel@hotmail.com

Shalosh Seudot
"Reflections from the Field: Serving as a Rabbi in Miluim [Army Reserves] Since October 7th"

Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom is a rabbi, lecturer and Jewish author. He was born Zaude Tesfay in a Jewish community in the North of Ethiopia. Dr. Shalom received his PhD in Jewish philosophy from Bar-Ilan University and his rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion. Today he serves as rabbi of Congregation Kedoshei Yisrael in Kiryat Gat.

He currently serves as a lecturer at Orot Yisrael College in Elkanah and at Bar-Ilan University and he works as a Rabbi in the Merkaz Shapira Or Meofir special program for Ethiopian emigrants. He lectures in Jewish ritual and tradition at Ono Academic College in Israel, and wrote From Sinai to Ethiopia: the Halachic World and Ethiopian Jewish Thought. Dr. Shalom lives with his wife, Aliza, and their five children in Kiryat Gat.