Season 2, Episode 7: Interview with Rabbi Mark Blazer
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Rabbi Mark Blazer is the President of the Jewish Life Foundation (JLF). The Foundation’s mission is to promote Jewish culture; the majority of its educational programming airs on Jewish Life Television (JLTV). JLTV is the only national international TV network dedicated to uplifting and Jewish values programming. He has served as the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Ami in Santa Clarita, California since 2000. Mark is the founder of the Albert Einstein Academy (AEA), the first K-12 Hebrew Charter School in the western United States. Within three years of opening, AEA was in the top 1% of high schools in California. It now has schools in California, Ohio and coming soon to Arizona. Rabbi Blazer also serves as chaplain for the LA County Sheriff’s Department and has served as chaplain for the California Department of Corrections. For eight years he ministered as the only prison rabbi serving statewide across California. Rabbi Blazer studied at Oxford University and is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego. He received his semichah (rabbinical ordination) from the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York. Mark and his wife, Tracy were married in 1993; they are the proud parents of Rachel, Dina and Shira. He continues the legacy of his father Phil, the founder of JLTV. We talk in-depth about the schools he founded, being a prison chaplain, having his Barmitzvah with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach at the Western Wall, the birth and growth of JTLV and his vision for the future of this powerful network, Please Subscribe to our channel, it's FREE !For More info go to www.holysparks.tv to become a patron or support our channel go to www.patreon.com/saulkaye thank you again to JLTV for helping to support our show!
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