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Rabbis from our Community

Rabbi David Weizman is from Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Cleveland State University. Rabbi Weizman received his ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2000, where he also received a Masters degree in Hebrew Letters. Rabbi Weizman has served as scholar-in-residence in congregations across the country and has held numerous internships including the Park Slope Jewish Center and the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in New York City. He was the founder and head of education at Congregation B’nai Ha’Aretz in Garberville, California, while working as a forest fire fighter. Rabbi Weizman served as a chaplain on the Post 9/11 emergency response team at the World Trade Center. He was also chaplain at Long Island Jewish Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Rabbi Weizman has extensive camping experience and is a certified SCUBA instructor. His has shared his survival expertise at Camp Ramah in Canada as a wilderness canoeing guide and has led camping trips around the country. Currently, Rabbi Weizman serves as the spiritual leader at Congregation Beth Shalom in Clearwater, Florida. He weaves his unique approach to Jewish meditation and connection to the natural world into his daily practice as a rabbi. Rabbi Weizman lives in Clearwater with his wife, Rabbi Danielle Upbin, and their four children.

Rabbi Pinchas was born and raised in Palm Harbor Florida. He has 8 siblings spread out from Israel to London and Brooklyn. At a young age he went off to study at different Yeshivas (Orthodox Schools) throughout North America. He studied to become a Rabbi at the Rabbinic College of America, and graduated with a B.A. in religious studies. Of the 5 ordaining Rabbis that gave him Semicha (Rabbinical Ordination), one was the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Meir Lau. He then continued his studies and received his Rabbinic Judicial Ordination from Rabbi Dovid Schochet, head of the Rabbinical Court in Toronto, Canada. Rabbi Pinchas is very warm and approachable, he always has some kind of joke ready to share. After marrying his wife Mushky, together they moved from New York to Pinellas County. They now have 2 sons, Menachem Mendel and Ari, and with their warmth and youthful energy they have brought a new light to Chabad of Pinellas County.

Rabbi Jenn Mangold grew up in New City, New York. She formed a deep love for Judaism at her home synagogue, Temple Beth Sholom. Experiencing the value of sanctuary, community, and spirituality inspired her to become a rabbi. Rabbi Mangold earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University at Buffalo in 2011 and a Master’s degree in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2012. She received her Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters in 2017 and Rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2018. 

Immediately following ordination, Rabbi Mangold began serving as Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Shalom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has experienced holiness in providing pastoral care, officiating life cycle events, building community, leading worship, and teaching Torah to individuals of all ages. Some of her most meaningful experiences have been serving as a Jewish representative at the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, collaborating with Congregation Shalom’s Voices for Justice Committee to plan a forum on racial equity and voting rights, and engaging young families with programs such as Bagels Books and Babies. Rabbi Mangold has enjoyed studying Judaism with conversion students, collaborating with the Holocaust Education Resource Center to educate youth and combat anti-Semitism, and leading creative programs like Torah on the Trails, Talmud on Tap, and Pop Up Shabbat. Read more...

Ronnie Kehati serves as a Rabbi at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, NY. He has served his congregation since 2007 and is a 10th generation rabbi. He comes from a rich lineage of ancestors who played a key role in the great institution of the rabbinate through their well-known published literary works on Jewish oral traditions. Affectionately known to his congregants as “Rabbi Ronnie,” he graduated from Queens College with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with High Honors, followed by a Master’s degree in Philosophy, and Public Policy, with Cum Laude. He was ordained in 2001 at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father Rabbi Samuel Kehati was also ordained. Upon graduation, Rabbi Ronnie Kehati was awarded the prestigious Nathan Stern Essay Prize in Hebraica. He is currently the only Reform Rabbi in North America, from an accredited Rabbinical Seminary to graduate Magna Cum Laude in Mortuary Science. Rabbi Kehati has always believed that the most important component to Jewish Survival in any given century has, is, and always will be Community Learning. “The engaging thing about Community Learning is that nobody can take it away from us. Moreover, when we learn together, we flourish together, as life never stops teaching, and we never stop learning….Consequently, this presents an opportunity for us to make a difference in ALL we choose to do.” Rabbi Ronnie resides in South Tampa with his loving fiancé, Tracy Benstock. Together, they look forward to establishing the building block of community—Family.