Shmuel Kaminetsky (born 1965) is an Israel-born rabbi and has been the

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and

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since 1990.

Biography

Shmuel Kaminetsky's parents emigrated from the

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to Israel due to Soviet religious persecution in 1946. Kaminetsky was born in

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, Israel, in 1965. From 1978 to 1981 he studied at the

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of the city of

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. In 1981 he went to the United States where he graduated from the

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er hassidic

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in New Jersey. In 1989, he married Hanna Lipsker; they had six daughters and three sons.

References

1965 births Living people Ukrainian Orthodox rabbis 20th-century Ukrainian rabbis 21st-century Ukrainian rabbis People from Kfar Chabad {{Ukraine-rabbi-stub