A Schmooze with a Millennial Rabbi

Avram Mlotek is a rabbi, cantor, writer and actor. In 2015, he co-founded Base Hillel, a new model for Jewish practice that reaches out to unaffiliated young adults, now operating in nine cities, and works as rabbi for its Manhattan location. He serves as Director of Spiritual Life for the International Base Program as well as Rabbi-in-Residence at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan. The New York Jewish Week has called him a “leading innovator in Jewish life today”, and in May 2016, Mlotek was listed as one of America’s “Most Inspiring Rabbis” by the Forward. A grandchild of Holocaust refugees and native Yiddish speaker, his most recent book ‘Why Jews Do That’ or 30 Questions your Rabbi Never Answered is now available.