Meet the Rabbi Rabbi Shaul Osadchey is the founding Rabbi of "Congregation Or Ami" and has served the Houston Jewish community since 1979 when he arrived to establish the "Houston Hillel Foundation" at the "University of Houston" and "Rice University". In 1983, Rabbi Osadchey began a 13 year tenure at "Congregation Brith Shalom" in Houston during which time he established new and innovative programs and involved the congregation in matters concerning Israel, Soviet Jewry, AIDS, the homeless, and the environment. He subsequently formed "Congregation Or Hadash" which merged with "Congregation Beth Am" in 2001 to form "Congregation Or Ami". Rabbi Osadchey remains a community activist with a passion for interfaith, racial, healthcare, poverty and other social justice issues. He is a senior fellow of the "American Leadership Forum" and a past president of "Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston", the "Houston Rabbinical Association", and the Texas "Kallah of Rabbis". Rabbi Osadchey was born in Los Angeles, CA and is a graduate of the "Los Angeles Hebrew High School", the "University of California at Berkeley" with majors in Religious Studies and Political Science, and "Hebrew Union College" from which he was ordained in New York in 1977. Married to Bobbie Osadchey in 2000, they have six children- Chris, Noel and Patrick, Jake, Miriam, Benjamin, and Ilana- and 5 grandchildren- Noah, Avery, Jonah, Grant, and Piper. To contact Rabbi Osadchey, click here: Rabbi Osadchey's e-mail

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