Mordechai Sheiner (Hebrew: מרדכי שיינר; Russian: Мордеха́й Шейнер) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi associated with the Chabad Hasidic movement.
He had never been to Birobidzhan before, but spoke Russian thanks to two years he spent in Ukraine, working at another synagogue.
Together they inspected local cemeteries and gathered information about the Jews buried there in the years prior to World War II .
The basis of the training course is study of the Hebrew language, history and classic Jewish texts.
[9] Rabbi Scheiner also hosted the television show Yiddishkeit, which began in 2005.