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Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski is a teacher at Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah in Modi’in, Israel and the director of Israel Advocacy for Southern NCSY.

A woman walks with her child in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, April 26, 2020. (Photo/JTA-David Vaaknin for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I’m an Israeli settler. American Jews are debating my future, but here’s what they don’t understand.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski by Rabbi Uri Pilichowski July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

It’s been surreal watching from Israel as Americans discuss my future. I’ve gotten used to presidents spending years developing plans for my neighborhood and other towns in Judea and Samaria, […]

The countryside as seen from the highest point of the Gush Etzion settlement in the West Bank, Feb. 2, 2018 (Photo/JTA-Jana Cavojska-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I’m an Israeli settler. This is why I spoke with J Street’s first ‘alternative Birthright’ group.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski by Rabbi Uri Pilichowski July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

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