Sandi Simcha DuBowski Sandi Simcha DuBowski Sandi Simcha DuBowski is an American director and producer, best known for his work on the intersection of LGBT people and their religion, DuBowski directed the 2001 documentary "Trembling Before G-d" and is the producer of Parvez Sharma's documentary "A Jihad for Love" (formerly known as "In the Name of Allah") (2007). DuBowski was born in Brooklyn in 1970. He was raised in Conservative Judaism. DuBowski attended Hunter College High School in New York City, during which he was selected to participate in Camp Rising Sun, the Louis August Jonas Foundation's international summer scholarship program. In 1992,
Simcha Elberg on Hebrewbooks.org. Simcha Elberg Rabbi Simcha Elberg (known as שמחה עלבערג in Hebrew) (1915–1995) was a renowned Talmudic scholar and the chairman on the executive board of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis for 25 years. He was also on the executive committee of Agudath Israel of America. Rabbi Elberg was born in Poland and ordained as a Rabbi in Warsaw by Rabbi Menachem Ziemba. He studied at Warsaw’s Emek Halacha Yeshiva, where his main teacher was Rabbi Natan Spigelglas. He edited the yeshivah’s journal, as a means to combat Haskalah, or Enlightenment. He went to the Montreaux yeshivah between 1935