Meet our Scholar in Residence
Rabbi Yosef Wolicki
Passover Travel at the Sheraton Plaza with Scholar in Residence Rabbi Yosef Wolicki - Rabbi Yosef Wolicki is a native of New York. He is an alumnus of Yeshiva University with a B.A. in Psychology, Masters degrees in Rabbinic Literature and Modern Jewish History and Rabbinic ordination. He also has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from McGill University in Montreal.
He served as a congregational rabbi in the U.S. and Canada for twenty-four years, the last fourteen before he made Aliya with Congregation Beth Ora in Montreal.
While in Montreal, he was active with Maple Leaf Lodge, Bnai Brith, serving as adult education chairman for twelve years. He also established a counseling program for the staff of the Jewish General Hospital of Montreal.
After his Aliya in 1986, he joined the faculty of Orot Israel College in Elkana and also worked as a psychologist at Shaare Zedek Hospital working with families of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. He moved to Netanya in 1990 as the rabbi of the New Synagogue. He retired from the synagogue in the Summer of 2004.
He gives seminars in counseling skills and practical rabbinics to young rabbis for the Shaal Program of Yeshivat Shaalvim and is on the faculty of the Jewish College for Adults in Jerusalem.
He is affiliated with the Rabbinical Council of America, the Young Israel Council of Rabbis and the Zohar rabbinic organization.
Rabbi Wolicki and his wife Marsha are the parents of five sons and they have twenty-one grandchildren.