Rabbi Seth Frisch, Rabbi
Rabbi Frisch has returned to TBI Warrington and the Jewish Center of Bucks County, with the objective of assisting in the various services for our TBI membership. Rabbi Frisch is available to anyone who would like to meet with him. Please email him at congregation@tbiwarrington.org to schedule an appointment.
About Rabbi Frisch
Rabbi Frisch was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. While a student, he also studied Biblical Narrative as a graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the mentorship of Dr. Shalom Paul, Chairperson of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation and former chair of the Bible Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
As an undergraduate student, Rabbi Frisch studied Government and International Relations while simultaneously serving as Legislative Assistant to the Chairman of the United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Area Concentration, United Arab Republic of Egypt. Later, Rabbi Frisch participated in 27 strategic missions to Sudan and Ethiopia in order to assist in what later became known as Operation Moses, the Israeli and World Jewry initiative to locate and rescue Ethiopian Jewry and facilitate their move to the State of Israel.
Rabbi Frisch continues to maintain a current and long-standing Fellowship with the offices of the Congressional Chaplains of the United States Congress. Rabbi Frisch continues to teach classes in Congress and has appeared numerous times before both Houses of the United States Congress, addressing issues of public policy, both foreign and domestic.
Rabbi Frisch is both founder and director of the Lerhaus Institute of Jewish Studies, which is a new school approach to Bet Midrash (a school/shul of Torah Studies), based on a study of texts and their relationship to the contemporary world.