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Rabbi Aron Boruch Tendler (born 1955) is an American rabbi and prominent Jewish community leader from Los Angeles. He is the brother of Rabbi Mordechai Tendler, son of Rabbi Moshe Tendler and the grandson of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein who was the de facto supreme rabbinic authority for Orthodox Jewry of North America.

Life and activities

He worked under Rabbi Matis Weinberg at the Kerem Yeshiva in California.<ref name="pssh"> Battle for the Truth
Rabbi Mattis Weinberg fights Yeshiva University over charges of “inappropriate influence.”, Julie Gruenbaum Fax, The Jewish Journal of greater L.A - March 28, 2003</ref>

Tendler became senior rabbi of "Congregation Shaarey Zedek" in Valley Village in July 2000, having served in the capacity of rabbi, assistant principal and principal of "Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles" for 20 years. He worked as a marriage counselor. Tendler was an executive at the Rabbinical Council of California, where he was chairman of Kosher certification.<ref name="f">Rabbi Tendler Honored, Jewish Journal of greater L.A, September 7, 2001</ref>

He was involved in a controversy in Israel in early 2006 after he and a group of 50 congregants were refused entry to the Temple Mount.<ref name="a"> Orthodox tourists claim police prejudice, Matthew Wagner, Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2006</ref> Tendler claimed that this was discriminatory, while the police defended their actions saying that the tourist s had failed to produce IDs. Tendler claimed that a non-Jewish group ahead of them were not asked to display ID.

As the director of a Jewish School in the Los Angeles area he was an active proponent of school voucher system which would enable parents to redeem government issued vouchers at private and religious schools.<ref name="b">School voucher proposition proves divisive issue, Thomas D. Elias, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct 31, 1993</ref>

He was the rabbi of Yakov Aminov who was killed in the LAX shootings, and spoke to the media about the victim and acted as the primary spokesman for the family.<ref name="t"> CNN SATURDAY
A Look at LAX Shooting Victim Yakov Aminov, July 6, 2002 - 17:09 ET</ref><ref name="pp">VALLEY FATHER OF EIGHT SLAIN IN SHOOTING, Daily News of Los Angeles, July 5, 2002</ref><ref name="oo">2002 LOCAL NEWS: TRAGEDY AT LAX - TWO WERE KILLED, Daily News of Los Angeles, Dec 31, 2002</ref>

He was active in a campaign to prevent the imposition of a system of bus lanes on a Jewish area of Los Angeles.<ref name="ert">VALLEY JEWS FIGHT BUSWAY - MTA: ORTHODOX FEAR IMPACT OF THOROUGHFARE, Press Telegram, July 7, 2001</ref><ref name="wer">An Air of Resignation, Jewish Journal of greater L.A, August 17, 2001</ref><ref name="popo">LA Orthodox Ask To Keep Buses...Far Away From Us, The Forward, July 6, 2001</ref><ref name="koko">Taking on the MTA
Jewish Journal of greater L.A, June 15, 2001</ref> Indeed, he was active in similar campaigns to stop trolley-buses in LA as early as 1986.<ref name="tro">EDITORIALS - TROLLEY TROUBLE, Daily News of Los Angeles, March 16, 1986</ref> He was also instrumental in the installation of a system that enables orthodox Jews to cross roads on the Sabbath.<ref name="werwer">WALK' SIGNS HELP JEWS OBSERVE HIGH HOLY DAYS, Daily News of Los Angeles, October 12, 2005</ref>

He spoke regularly about physical and sexual abuse within the Jewish community and was active in treating victims of such abuse. In 1998 he argued that: "Abuse has nothing to do with one's moral upbringing, but with the [generational cycle of violence."<ref name="uuu"> Sleeping with the Enemy
Jewish Journal of greater L.A, January 30, 1998</ref>

Resignation

He was forced to resign six months before the end of his contract after references to alleged sexual misconduct emerged in the press in relation to his brother's problems. <ref name="oioi">Tendler Resigns Under Cloud, Amy Klein, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, March 7, 2006</ref> Both the New York Post<ref name="oioi3">Rabbi Expelled From Shul, JEANE MacINTOSH and DAVID HAFETZ, New York Post, March 1, 2006</ref> and the Jewish Week<ref name="kokok"/> reported that he was stepping down under related circumstances.

According to the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, he had been once accused of inappropriate conduct at the Yeshiva of Los Angeles (YULA). Though the 1987 investigation was inconclusive, Tendler was transferred from the girls school to the boys school.<ref name="oioi"/>

Tendler had agreed to depart in September of 2006. According to a report in the Jewish Week, this was influenced by the publication of the information about his previous transfer.<ref name="kokok">Rabbi Tendler Suspended From Monsey Synagogue, Staff Report, Jewish Week (NY), March 1, 2006</ref>

References

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External links

[www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/aron_tendler.htm Luke Ford profile on Tendler]

[http://www.torah.org/learning/rabbis-notebook/5759/vayishlach.html Tendler's weekly column for Torah.org