You don’t meet folks like Shais Rishon every day. He wears the prayer shawl and skull cap of an Orthodox Jewish man and he’s an ordained rabbi. But he has the cadence and sharp suits of a preacher in the black church. Because Shais Rishon is an African-American Orthodox rabbi, whose Jewish linage stretches back almost 300 years.
He was in Australia for the Limmud Oz Festival of Jewish Ideas.
Listen to program on the ABC Religion and Ethics Report.