
Robert L. Wolkoff is a graduate of Wesleyan University and was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary. In Sweden, the rabbi served as co-chair of the Council of Christians and Jews and as a member of the Swedish Free Church Trialogue of Moslems, Christians, and Jews. While in Sweden the rabbi met his wife, Ruth-Ann, who was on a business trip at the time. The two married and returned to America in 1993, where they lived in Appleton, Wisconsin for several years. He is a past President of the Southeast Region Rabbinical Assembly and member of the Executive Council of the Rabbinical Assembly. As past president of the Greater Carolinas Association of Rabbis, he fostered cooperation and harmony in one of largest interdenominational rabbinical organizations in America. Rabbi Wolkoff founded and served as director of Blackfire, which raised the Jewish public profile in Scandinavia, defended the Jewish community against governmental, academic, and theological anti-Semitism, and presented a Jewish perspective on social issues and Israel. Rabbi Wolkoff relocated to the parsonage in North Brunswick in August of 2007 with his wife, Ruth-Ann, and their three children, twins Ethan & Joseph, and daughter Dhalia Orli who was 9 months old at the time.
From the Rabbi’s Desk – Articles & Sermon
Spiritual Nugget – The Absent Ones
Once, after he had recited the Eighteen Benedictions, the rabbi [...]
Prayer Lesson 83 – Redemption, the 7th blessing of the weekday
I believe it was Dr. Louis Finkelstein who said that [...]
Spiritual Nugget – Your tefillin
Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, known as “the Merciful One” [...]
Prayer Lesson 82 – The Sixth Blessing of the Weekday Amidah—Forgiveness
Like the blessing which precedes it, on repentance, the blessing [...]
Spiritual Nugget – His Days
Every morning at rising, before he spoke a word to [...]
Prayer Lesson 81 – The prayer for repentance
In the weekday Amidah, immediately after the prayer for discernment, [...]