Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pereira is the director of adult education at Chabad of Virginia, Richmond, and the founding director of the RVA—Jewish Studies Center. He is the author or co-author of several books, including “Jewish Voices from Portugal” and "Jewish Ethics from Portugal,” and lectures extensively around the world on the history of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula and the Sephardic World in general. He is also a university professor and a widely published economist.
Rabbi Pereira can be reached at shlomo@chabadofva.org.
1780
Hailing from an Iberian family, R. David Pardo moved to Jerusalem in 1780 after serving for decades in several communities in the Balkans. R. Pardo distinguished himself by a unique focus on the literature of the period of the Tannaim, that is, the period until the end of the second century of the Common Era.