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Anshel Pfeffer

You don't get much more establishment than Rabbi Benjamin Lau. Scion of a proud rabbinical family, son of a veteran civil servant and diplomat, and nephew of a former chief rabbi. Soft-spoken and quietly charismatic, he's the kind of young rabbi and scholar who every community would like to put in its window display.

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