clergy

Chaim Sabbah’s extensive knowledge of Torah, Jewish customs and history derives from over half a century of regular daily active participation in Jewish religious services. Since 1986, he has been Adat Shalom’s regular Shabbat Torah reader, the person who conducts the early morning services during the High Holy Days and other Jewish holidays as well as the cantor’s backup.

Rabbi Scott Perlo was born and raised in Los Angeles, and attended Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills from preschool all the way on up. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 with a degree in Literature and Literary Theory, and took a year waiting tables on the beach before entering the Ziegler School of Rabbinic studies. He was ordained in 2008, winning the David Aronson award for Excellence in Rabbinic Literature.
His adventures have taken him across the country and around the world, most notably to Poland, where he spent an extraordinary summer as the student rabbi of Beit Warszawa, a small congregation in Warsaw. He was formerly the rabbi in residence of the Professional Leaders Project, and has worked for Hillel at UCLA, LA Hebrew High, Camp Ramah, and lectured at the Ziegler School. He was a fellow at the Kollel of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and was the rabbinic intern of IKAR in West L.A.
Rabbi Perlo served as the rabbi of Moishe House, an innovative organization that aids Jews in their 20’s around the world to create a community of their own for their peers. He also served as the rabbinic coordinator at Mazon and taught at Milken Community High School. He is a founder of Ma’or, a new kind of learning experience for Jews of all stripes in Los Angeles.
When not at Adat Shalom, you can find Rabbi Perlo surfing the early morning waves off the L.A. coast or reading as many novels as he can get his hands on.