ABOUT RABBI CARLOS TAPIERO

Born in Argentina in 1962 and married to Ronit Emek-Ya (they have three children: Rafael, Liat – both in the Israel Defense Forces, & Nir), Rabbi Carlos Tapiero is the Deputy- Director General & Director of Education of Maccabi World Union – with its Headquarters in Ramat Gan, Israel. For more than a dozen years he served as Community Director & Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Guatemala.   His general & specific Jewish education was gained in Israel, Argentina, Guatemala and the USA, with a BA & MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Bible, General Philosophy & Contemporary Jewry (specialized in Jewish Education & Holocaust Studies) and his smicha as a Rabbi was awarded by the Schechter Institute of Jerusalem.  He completed the highly prestigious Jerusalem Fellows Program. At present he is working on his Doctoral Thesis in Sociology.   He lectures on numerous topics, teaching in the USA, Europe, Latin America & Israel, and his experience ranges over much of the theoretical & practical nexus of modern Jewish community organization: community & institutional direction & organization; concepts of Judaism as the basis of modern Jewish culture; writing & implementation of educational curricula for all ages – children, teenagers, adults; fundraising, endowment funds, and in case we forgot, he’s also nifty with information technology, multilingual and madly enthusiastic about his work in Maccabi.
 E-mail: carlos@maccabiworld.org