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Yehuda Sarna

A screenshot from video shared by the UAE's deputy prime minister on February 17, 2023, shows a scene from the opening ceremony at the newly opened Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 17, 2023, 4:53 pm
Arab world’s ‘1st purpose-built synagogue in century’ opens at UAE interfaith center
UK chief rabbi affixes mezuzah during inauguration of Abu Dhabi’s Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue, which will host Shabbat prayers on Friday evening
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An artistic rendering of the future Abrahamic Family House complex in Abu Dhabi. (Abu Dhabi Government Media Office)
February 16, 2023, 12:20 pm
UAE interfaith compound featuring new synagogue set to open Thursday
Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi will host its first Shabbat services this weekend; Emirati president to donate Torah scroll
By Lazar Berman
New York Rabbi Elie Abadi (YouTube screenshot)
October 16, 2020, 3:26 pm
Small but growing, UAE’s Jewish community to get second full-time rabbi from NY
Beirut-born Elie Abadie, a prominent scholar of Sephardic Judaism, to relocate to Dubai by November 1, as Emirati community expects to expand following Abraham Accords
By Raphael Ahren
UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs Shamma Al Mazrui addressing the Jewish Community of the Emirates' weekly pre-Shabbat Zoom meeting, September 26, 2020 (screen grab)
September 29, 2020, 2:15 pm
In Zoom meeting with local Jews, UAE minister hails ‘wisdom of Shabbat’
Minister of State Shamma Al Mazrui notes similarities between Islam and Judaism, calls herself a ‘new student of the Jewish tradition and wisdom, your values, your ethics’
By Raphael Ahren
Yehuda Sarna, Chief Rabbi of the United Arab Emirates, blows the shofar in Dubai, September 18, 2020 (video screenshot)
September 19, 2020, 4:54 pm
UAE’s chief rabbi blows shofar in Dubai in new video
Yehuda Sarna’s clip is a fitting gesture at the end of a historic week that saw Abu Dhabi formalize relations with Israel, bolster ties to its own Jewish community
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Jewish leaders Rabbi Bruce Lustig, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, Eric Fingerhut and Ross Kriel, at the White House peace ceremony, September 15, 2020 (courtesy)
September 15, 2020, 10:55 pm
At White House ceremony, UAE Jews hail treaties as ‘epoch-making’
Representatives of country’s two rival Dubai congregations fete ‘great momentum for peace in the world’; head of Bahrain’s Jewish community hosted by senior adviser to King Hamad
By Raphael Ahren
A man sporting a Jewish 'tallit' looks out over the Dubai skyline in the United Arab Emirates (video screenshot)
September 1, 2020, 5:50 pm
Jewish Agency to work on aiding community in United Arab Emirates
Group’s chief Isaac Herzog says aim is to bolster Jewish identity, run summer camps; will possibly send an emissary
By ToI Staff
Yehuda Sarna
August 21, 2020, 11:29 am
Yehuda Sarna
How I became Chief Rabbi of the UAE and why that matters to global Jewry
At times, I can hardly believe the things that have happened to me. But these stories are not just about me and not just about the Jews in the Emirates
A screenshot from a video on the Facebook page of the 'Jewish Community of the UAE' (Facebook)
June 29, 2020, 2:31 pm
Muscling in on Dubai’s existing Jewish community, a Chabad rabbi stirs discord
New ‘Jewish Community of the UAE’ got much press, but upstart congregation’s eye for publicity backfires as local authorities order immediate closure of its social media accounts
By Raphael Ahren
The Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, UAE. (courtesy of The Higher Committee for Human Fraternity)
September 22, 2019, 5:34 pm
UAE to open synagogue, part of interfaith compound, in 2022
Abu Dhabi complex will include church and mosque; follows pope’s visit to country earlier this year that resulted in religious tolerance pact
By ToI Staff
Khalid Latif, executive director of the Islamic Center at NYU, left, and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, executive director of the university's Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, attend the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, April 17, 2014. (Emal Countess/Getty Images for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival via JTA)
May 15, 2019, 11:15 am
NYU chaplain to be first chief rabbi of United Arab Emirates Jews
Yehuda Sarna says unpaid position requires traveling to Dubai 4 times a year to lead holiday services and officiate life-cycle ceremonies for hundreds of Jews in country
By Ron Kampeas
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