PATH FAREWELL MALAVE MALKA FOR THE JANKOVITS FAMILY

July 19, 10 pm to 12 am, at the home of Mimi & Dani Bengio, 4100 North 42nd Avenue in Hollywood, contact Mimi at bengio.m@mellon.com

PATH is searching for a dynamic Rabbi and Rebbetzin to lead us in building on the dramatic success of Rabbi & Mimi Jankovits. For a full job description, click here!

Welcome - About PATH

The Need

Hollywood, Florida is at a critical point in its development as a Jewish Torah community. With more than 6,000 Jews of all affiliations in the greater Emerald Hills area alone, four active Orthodox synagogues, two temples, many kosher restaurants and a day school, Hollywood has a reputation as a center of Jewish life in South Florida. Its potential in terms of unaffiliated but Jewishly conscious Jews is tremendous.

To advance Hollywood as a Torah community, PATH seeks to enhance Torah awareness, learning and observance in our community through our Rabbi and Rebbetzin, who coordinate and implement community outreach and inreach programming and projects. PATH works to educate and inspire Hollywood’s main constituents - the potentially observant and the unaffiliated - while motivating the already observant to join in this vital outreach work.

The Mission

To bring Torah learning and appreciation to the Jews of Hollywood regardless of background, affiliation or education.

The Vision

PATH is dedicated to fostering spiritual growth among all of Hollywood’s sizable Jewish community in order to have a positive lasting effect in making Hollywood, Florida a vibrant, inspiring, and inspired Torah community.

The Project

PATH fulfils its lofty mission through the following:

One-on-learning and small classes on Parsha, hashkafa and halacha for newly affiliated, taught by a learned Rabbi and Rebbetzin, both in a Beis Medrash setting and privately
Annual Simchat Torah Sefer Program (with Young Israel of Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale) whereby each of the shul’s more than 190 school-age children is presented with a Torah Sefer by which to build a personal sefer collection.
Annual Lecture presenting a well known Torah speaker to provide words of inspiration to the Jews of Hollywood
A Parasha HaShavuah CD that is distributed to more than 100 people weekly
Speakers series, adult education classes, and social programs which attract unaffiliated and/or strengthen community
Sabbath and holiday meals and events at the Rabbi’s home and homes of other observant Hollywood families
Volunteer committees comprised of leaders in target communities including young families, singles, women and Latins that manage educational programs for target audiences and bring them into the Hollywood synagogue community
E-mail marketing and public relations activities that reach new people

The Rabbi (outgoing)

Rabbi Yossi Jankovits is the heart and soul of PATH. His tremendous Torah knowledge, his warm and caring personality, his demonstrated results, and his ambition to work in partnership to help Jews connect with Torah makes him the ideal leader of our organization.

Our community first came to know and value Rabbi Jankovits when he served as Director of Advanced Education at Aish HaTorah South Florida from March 2000 – July 2001. He started the Downtown Lunch and Learn, attracting thirty lawyers (most non-affiliated) to a weekly Parsha class, started a morning Daf Yomi shiur at the Young Israel, and learned privately with more than 20 people a week, while gaining a strong reputation for hosting large and lively Shabbat and holiday events with his wife Mimi.

As Director of Outreach at Sha’arei Chesed Synagogue in St. Louis, Missouri from July 2001 to July 2003, Rabbi Yossi strengthened the shul membership by learning privately or in classes with more than fifty people each week. His popular weekly Parsha shiur is was taped and distributed to more than 120 people, both in St. Louis and Florida. The Jankovits's continued to host large numbers of guests for Sabbath and holiday events, estimating that they served more than 3000 meals in those two years to the many newly interested and newly observant members of the community. They also organized several shul events and dinners that helped build camaraderie in the synagogue.

Rabbi Jankovits received his rabbinic ordination at Mesivta Nachlas Yaakov and MBA from Cal State University at Northridge. He gave Daf Yomi Shiurim for 14 years at Congregation Magen Abraham in Los Angeles, California and Yavne Minyan in Sao Paulo Brasil. While running a business in his native Brazil from 1994 – 1999, he also gave 3- 6 hours of classes a day. Together, the Jankovits hosted large Shabbat tables, Shabbatons, and Jewish singles events, making their mark in Sao Paulo as well.