Baruch Gigi
Baruch Gigi (Hebrew: ברוך גיגי) is a co-Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion.
Biography[]
Baruch Gigi was born in Morocco and immigrated to Israel at the age of 11. He first attended Yeshivat Har Etzion as a student in 1974 after studying in a yeshiva high school in Haifa. He was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and received a BEd degree from Herzog College. From 1982-88, he taught in Yeshivat Ma'alot in the town of Ma'alot-Tarshiha and since then has been teaching in Yeshivat Har Etzion.
Together with Rabbi Yaaqov Medan, Rabbi Gigi joined Rabbi Yehuda Amital[1] and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein as a co-Rosh Yeshiva on January 4, 2006.
He also serves as the rabbi of the Sephardi synagogue in Alon Shvut[2] (the town where the yeshiva is located), and he teaches several classes in the women's institutions Midreshet Lindenbaum and Migdal Oz.
References[]
- ^ Yair Sheleg (10 June 2005). "A rare breed, this 'simple Jew'". Haaretz. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ Matthew Wagner (6 February 2006). "Interfaith group slams caricatures". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- Living people
- 20th-century Moroccan Jews
- Moroccan emigrants to Israel
- Religious Zionist rosh yeshivas
- Sephardi rabbis
- Yeshivat Har Etzion
- Israeli Orthodox rabbis
- People from Haifa
- Israeli settlers
- Israeli soldiers
- Jewish military personnel