Sometimes You Are What You Wear!: The Traditional Jewish View of Modesty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781425760380)

Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran serves as Vice President of Communications & Marketing of the Orthodox Union, the world's largest and most respected kosher certification agency, where he has been serving as Senior Rabbinic Coordinator and New Companies rabbinic coordinator for the past 13 years. He has escorted hundreds of companies around the world including in Turkey, India, Egypt, Argentina and Greece through the complexities of kosher certification.. He is also the Editor in Chief of Behind the Union Symbol, the highly acclaimed OU magazine considered as the finest kosher trade journal. Rabbi Safran is renowned as a charismatic scholar in residence visiting at schools and synagogues around the country, dynamic rabbi, educator, lecturer and author - having served in both rabbinic and educational leadership positions. Rabbi Dr. Safran was educated at Yeshiva University in New York where he received rabbinic ordination and a master's of science degree. In addition to his degrees from Yeshiva University, Rabbi Safran also received a doctorate in Administration. He taught Jewish history and philosophy at Yeshiva University, and led a major Pittsburgh Orthodox congregation and served as principal of highly regarded schools in Pittsburgh, New York and New Jersey. The scion of a distinguished rabbinic family - his late father was Chief Rabbi of Jasi, Romania and later Professor of Jewish Education at Yeshiva University and his grandfather was the rabbinic leader and Jewish legal authority of Romania, the author of major Jewish legal works. Rabbi Safran is the author of several works, including Kos Eliyahu: Insights into the Haggadah and Passover which is now in its second printing. He is married to Klari Safran, internationally renowned designer and manufacturer of Clary's Wigs. Together, they have nine children.