What is Zvi Dershowitz?
{{Infobox person | birth_name = Hugo Zvi Dershowitz | image = Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz.png | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1928|5|4}} | birth_place = [[Brno]], [[First Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovakia]] | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2023|3|26|1928|5|4}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S. | occupation = Rabbi at [[Sinai Temple (Los Angeles)|Sinai Temple]] | caption = 2014 | children = 4 | spouse = Tova }} [[File:Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz -- Chaplain from the local Board of Rabbis of Southern California to the Los Angeles jail system (ca. 2000).png|thumb|Leading services at the [[Twin Towers Correctional Facility]] and the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles on September 21, 2000, shortly before Rosh Hashanah (the [[Jewish New Year]])]] [[File:Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz, April 2012.png|thumb|Speech to [[Sinai Temple (Los Angeles)|Sinai Temple]]'s Men's Club in 2012]]'''Zvi Dershowitz''' (May 4, 1928 &mdash; March 26, 2023) is an Czech-born American rabbi. He is the Rabbi Emeritus at [[Sinai Temple (Los Angeles)|Sinai Temple]] in [[Los Angeles]]. He was born in [[Brno]], Czechoslovakia. He helped [[Iran]]ian Jews who were fleeing their country get entry to the [[United States]] in 1979. In 1973, Dershowitz became associate rabbi at [[Sinai Temple (Los Angeles)|Sinai Temple]]. He would remain in that role for 25 years before becoming the synagogue's Rabbi Emeritus in 1998. Dershowitz is related to Harvard Law professor [[Alan Dershowitz]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Dershowitz dynasty|url=http://www.jpost.com/Local-Israel/The-Dershowitz-dynasty|author=Greer Fay Cashman|date=25 December 2009}}</ref> He died on March 26, 2023, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rabbi Emeritus Zvi Dershowitz |url=https://www.sinaitemple.org/about/clergy-senior-staff/rabbi-emeritus-zvi-dershowitz/ |website=Sinai Temple |access-date=10 April 2023}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dershowitz, Zvi}} [[Category:19