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A self-professed "good Jewish boy from New Jersey," Rabbi Michael Elkohen had come a long way. In the ultra-Orthodox enclave in Jerusalem where Elkohen now lives, he was often called on to perform marriages, circumcisions and other sacred Jewish rituals. He was even hired to write Torah scrolls, handwritten copies of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, in a task typically reserved for the most devout and highly trained scribes.  But for 15 years, Elkohen was apparently living a lie. The father of five with the black hat, beard and side curls was fluent in Judaic texts and ...

'Good Jewish boy' or chief 'infiltrator'? NJ man spent years as fake rabbi in Israel, groups say © Morningstar Missionaries Rabbi Michael Elkohen in an interview recorded for Morningstar Ministries. A self-professed "good Jewish boy from New Jersey," Rabbi Michael Elkohen had come a long way. In the ultra-Orthodox enclave in Jerusalem where Elkohen now lives, he was often called on to perform marriages, circumcisions and other sacred Jewish rituals. He was even hired to write Torah scrolls, handwritten copies of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, in a task typically reserv...

A self-professed "good Jewish boy from New Jersey," Rabbi Michael Elkohen had come a long way. In the ultra-Orthodox enclave in Jerusalem where Elkohen now lives, he was often called on to perform marriages, circumcisions and other sacred Jewish rituals. He was even hired to write Torah scrolls, handwritten copies of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, in a task typically reserved for the most devout and highly trained scribes.  But for 15 years, Elkohen was apparently living a lie. The father of five with the black hat, beard and side curls was fluent in Judaic texts and ...

"Do we let the trauma master us — or do we master the trauma?" he likes to say. The most common advice is to "put the trauma behind you and move on," said Comet, a 96-year-old veteran Jewish communal professional who speaks about the Holocaust to groups around the country. But it is far better to "transmute" that trauma "into creative energy and action," he said, which is precisely what his late wife, Shoshana, did. And if Shoshana — who suffered terrifying experiences during the Holocaust — could overcome her trauma, then anyone can, Comet said.   Decades ago, at age 40, with no...