Serving your life cycle, learning, pastoral and/or ritual needs
Shalom and welcome. My favorite Hebrew word is shalom, a word steeped with nuanced meaning. Shalom is most commonly used to mean hello, goodbye and peace. However, if we take a closer look at the three letter Hebrew root of shalom, ש-ל-ם, we see the deeper meaning of “completeness” or “fullness,” associated with this root, and perhaps we experience the greatest gift of all, shalom, a feeling of peace and completeness when we connect with and help serve the other.
My name is Rabbi Keven Tzvi Friedman and I look forward to connecting with you soon, listening and helping to serve your life-cycle, learning, pastoral and/or ritual needs. I have always enjoyed meeting and helping people as both an attorney and a local community rabbi. I believe it is crucial to meet you where you are, be curious to listen to your stories, including celebrations and challenges, and energized to help you and your family navigate your unique Jewish journey. I look forward to hopefully serving you, connecting you to our vast, beautiful tradition, taking the time to personalize your life cycle event, and helping to make Judaism more relevant in your everyday lives.
I have served Jews from across the denominational spectrum, including Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Jewish Renewal, traditional, atheist, agnostic, affiliated and unaffiliated, as both a hospital chaplain and a local community rabbi.
Located in the town of Highland Park, Middlesex County, in central New Jersey (NJ), approximately one mile from Rutgers University’s New Brunswick campus, Rabbi Friedman officiates at conversions, weddings, baby namings, brit milah circumcision ceremonies, bar and bat mitzvahs, funerals and all religious and lifecycle services in all local surrounding areas including Carteret, Cranbury, Dunellen, East Brunswick, Edison, Helmetta, Highland Park, Jamesburg, Metuchen, Middlesex, Milltown, Monroe, New Brunswick City, North Brunswick, Old Bridge, Perth Amboy City, Piscataway, Plainsboro, Sayreville, South Amboy City, South Brunswick, South Plainfield, South River, Spotswood, and Woodbridge. Rabbi Friedman is available to help serve your religious and lifecycle needs in northern and southern New Jersey as well, from Sussex to Cape May Counties and in between.
Outside of New Jersey, Rabbi Friedman is available in all five boroughs of New York City, including outlying areas from Nassau and Suffolk Long Island to Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess counties, as well as Pennsylvania, Connecticut and beyond. If you are not within local driving distance, Rabbi Friedman is available via Zoom anywhere in the United States, Israel and the world.