Shmuley Boteach
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Jacob Shmuel Boteach
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Birth Date November 19, 1966
Ethnicity Jewish
Father Persian Mizrahi
Mother Ashkenazi
Nationality American
Career Television personality, rabbi, author, television host, radio host
Color Season Soft Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Je activist
Conductor author
Author of 31 books, including the best-seller Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy (1999) and Kosher Jesus (2012)
Hosted two seasons of the reality television series Shalom in the Home on TLC
Newsweek named him one of the 10 most influential rabbis in the United States, and The Jerusalem Post named him one of the fifty most influential rabbis in the world
Attended a Chabad-Lubavitch camp and fell in love with Judaism
The Lubavitcher Rebbe became his patron, and at age 13, he joined the Chabad movement (a Hasidic philosophy that traces back 250 years to Lubavitch, Russia)
Served as rabbi to Oxford University's students for 11 years
Founded the Oxford University L'Chaim Society (in Hebrew, L'Chaim means "To Life"), and the society grew to be the second-biggest student organization ever in Oxford, with a membership that included over 5,000 non-Jews
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