Background
Joseph Dweck was born in Los Angeles and is of Syrian Jewish origin.
Joseph Dweck was born in Los Angeles and is of Syrian Jewish origin.
He has served as the rabbi of Congregation Shaare Shalom in Brooklyn since 1999 and Rosh Yeshiva/Head of School at Barkai Yeshivah since 2010. He studied at Yeshiva Hazon Ovadia in Jerusalem. He received his semikha from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef under the auspices of the Sephardic Rabbinical College, Brooklyn.
He was appointed Senior Rabbi of The South&P Sephardi Community of London, England in 2013.