Tzvi Jacobs

TZVI JACOBS was born Herbie Jacobs in 1954 in Charleston, South Carolina. One hundred years earlier, his great-grandfather came off the boat in the port of Charleston, and the local people of color affectionately called him "Jew Jacobs." Herbie served his time at a Jewish parochial school, the Charleston Hebrew Institute, until his bar mitzvah. Afterwards, he assimilated at the local public high school where they learned him Southern English. In 1977, Herb graduated from the University of the...See more

TZVI JACOBS was born Herbie Jacobs in 1954 in Charleston, South Carolina. One hundred years earlier, his great-grandfather came off the boat in the port of Charleston, and the local people of color affectionately called him "Jew Jacobs." Herbie served his time at a Jewish parochial school, the Charleston Hebrew Institute, until his bar mitzvah. Afterwards, he assimilated at the local public high school where they learned him Southern English. In 1977, Herb graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he learned the dubious freedoms of secularism. After facing post-Viet Nam realism, Herb re-entered established education and the and earned a master's degree in Epidemiology at the University of South Carolina School of Public Health. While earning a master's, a fellow student influenced Herbie to return to his Jewish roots and attend a beginner's yeshiva at the Rabbinical College of America, in Morristown, New Jersey. Tzvi had been working as a medical writer in the pharmaceutical industry since 1997. In 2011, Tzvi took a sabbatical, revised this book and wrote a new book about his journey titled Who's Going To Save the World: A Spiritual Journey. A print edition quickly sold out and Tzvi's sabbatical ended after 13 months (just in the knick of time... the day before the foreclosure hearing, thank you God!). Tzvi and his wife Esther live in Monsey, New York. They have been blessed with a child for every night of Chanukah. If you like this book, please tell all of your Facebook friends because there are many mouths to feed, many schools to support, and God willing more weddings to celebrate. See less