A Special Friday Evening Service at JC3/CHESMA

We are pleased to welcome Rabbi Aaron Katz to San Miguel. He has very generously offered to give a Friday Evening Service.

Rabbi Aaron Katz’s services are interactive, spiritual and energetic. Given in English and Spanish with Hebrew prayer and song, Rabbi Aaron brings cross-cultural ties to his engaging services. He has been published in newspapers and magazines in the USA, Sweden, Spain and Israel, and he consulted on the book “Rashi's Daughters,” the first novel in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France.
Rabbi Katz strongly believes in keeping the values and identity of his (our) cultural beliefs alive.

We look forward to welcoming Rabbi Katz on Friday, November 10th at 6:30pm. Please join us.

Following the service, share in our potluck Kiddush. Please bring a dairy or vegetarian dish, a snack or a dessert. If you prefer, please donate 200 or more pesos per person. To sponsor a future Kiddush speak to Kayla Fine or email her at shalomsanmiguel@gmail.com.

After receiving his Masters degree in Jerusalem in 1979, Rabbi Katz was appointed as a Family Law Judge in Tel Aviv. At about the same time, he had the rare honor of being ordained by both the Chief Orthodox Sephardic Rabbi Yosef Z"L and the Chief Orthodox Ashkenazi Rabbi Goren Z"L. In 1986 he received a doctorate in Comparative Religion and Philosophy in England. 

Rabbi Katz served as head Rabbi for Sweden’s Jewish Community for 14 years. After which he spent six years in Germany and two years in Spain before moving to Los Angeles, to serve at the world’s first Reform Jewish Synagogue for the LGBTQ+ community. He went on to serve as Senior Rabbi at Shofar Community, Los Angeles as well as in Miami at The Cuban Hebrew Congregation. He later accepted the senior Rabbi position at Bnai Jacob Congregation, Jersey City, NJ.

His educational positions include Miami, Broward, Austin, Los Angeles and the Caribbean as well as Argentina, Spain, Germany, Sweden and Israel.

Rabbi Katz has been published in newspapers and magazines in the USA, Sweden, Spain and Israel, and he consulted on the book “Rashi's Daughters,” the first novel in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France.

Rabbi Katz strongly believes in keeping the values and identity of his (our) cultural beliefs alive.