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Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman
Chief Rabbi of Migdal HaEmek
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman in 2008.jpg
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman in 2008
Began 1969
Other Founder and dean, Migdal Ohr educational institutions
Personal details
Birth name Yitzchak Dovid Grossman
Born September 1946 (age 70)
Jerusalem, Israel
Nationality Israeli
Denomination Haredi
Residence Migdal HaEmek
Parents Rabbi Yisrael Grossman
Perl Gutfarb Grossman
Spouse Esther
Children 5
Alma mater Slabodka yeshiva, Bnei Brak

Yitzchak Dovid Grossman (Hebrew: יצחק דוד גרוסמן‎‎) (born September 1946 in Jerusalem), also known as the "Disco Rabbi", is the Chief Rabbi of Migdal HaEmek, founder and dean of Migdal Ohr educational institutions, and a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council of Israel. He is known for his work with children from disadvantaged and troubled homes, having rehabilitated tens of thousands of youth through his educational network founded in 1972.

Grossman is a sixth-generation Jerusalemite and the scion of a prominent Hasidic family. His father, Rabbi Yisrael Grossman, served as rosh yeshiva of Pinsk-Karlin and of Chabad in Lod, and was a member of the rabbinical court of Agudat Yisrael. His mother, Perl (1923–2012), was the daughter of Rabbi Yosef Gutfarb, a teacher at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in the Old City of Jerusalem. He is one of six brothers and four sisters. He grew up in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem and attended Yeshivas Karlin.

An alumnus of Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Grossman received rabbinical ordination in 1966. Desiring to do religious outreach in one of Israel's secular neighborhoods, he moved to the Lower Galilee town of Migdal HaEmek in 1968. Migdal HaEmek was founded in 1953 to help absorb the mass aliyah of Sephardi Jewish immigrants from North Africa, Migdal HaEmek's population growth drastically outpaced its socioeconomic and educational infrastructure. With a shortage of jobs and dearth of schools, the town was plagued by widespread crime and alcohol and drug abuse. Grossman, looking every inch the Hasidic rabbi with his beard and sidelocks, embarked on a one-man campaign to rehabilitate Sephardi youth immersed in crime and drug use. He went straight to the pubs and discos where idle youth from distressed homes were hanging out and gained their trust with love and caring. In 1970 Israeli television dubbed him the "Disco Rabbi".


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