Moshe Leib Rabinovich
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Grand Rabbi Moshe Leib Rabinovich (born December 25, 1941 in Munkacs) is the current rebbe of Munkacs. His father, Rabbi Baruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinowicz served as Chief Rabbi of Munkacs following the death of his father-in-law Chief Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira in 1937 until the Nazis occupied Munkacs in 1944.
During World War Two, Rabbi Baruch succeeded in escaping the clutches of the Nazi death machine and fled with his entire family to the land of Israel (then Palestine). His son, Moshe Leib, studied in Israel and later in America at the famous rabbinical academy of Telshe yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio and in Beis Medrash Elyon in Spring Valley, New York.
Rabbi Rabinovich married in 1960 and was immediately appointed as leader of the Munkacs community. He immediately began to rebuild the community overcoming the ashes of Hitler’s Holocaust, and established religious and educational bases in the United States, Canada, Israel, London and Australia.
Rabbi Rabinovich is known as a well-respected scholar and sage. His counsel is frequently sought by government and elected officials for his blessings and support.
Rabbi Rabinovich frequently visits his home town in Munkacs to strengthen the Jewish community there and rebuild at least a little bit on Munkacs’s pre-war grandeur and splendor.
Rabbi Rabinovich has authored numerous books on Torah and Halacha (Jewish Law), among them Sharei Orah and Olas Shabbos.
He resides in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York which is home to thousands of Jews of Munkacs descent and which is the international headquarters of worldwide Munkacs Jewry.
