a kave [coffee] with the Rabbi). In that same year he was appointed secretary of the Latin American branch of the Rabbinical Assembly, the rabbi’s international association of the Conservative Judaism. As part of his teaching and representative tasks he took part as lecturer in the Workshop on Bioethics and Traditions organized by the Research Center on Bioethics and Public Health of the University of Santiago de Chile. After that workshop he was appointed as advisor on Bioethics of that Research Center, task he left in 1997 when emigrated together with his family to Israel. In November 1997 he received the honor “Asseh lekha rav” bestowed by the Latin American Rabbinical Assembly, for his distinguished rabbinical performance in South America. In 1998 Yosef and his family settled in Israel where he became the rabbi of the “Adat Shalom Emanuel” congregation in Rehovot, succeeding rabbi Shmuel Avidor Hacohen, task he held until 2008. While carrying out his tasks as educator and spiritual leader in Rehovot, Yosef also taught Bible, Jewish history and Jewish Thought in the Nativ course for soldiers, within the framework of the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Jewish Agency. During 1999 he taught rabbinical students a course on practical rabbinics at the Schechter Institute and, between 2000 and 2002, he was a member of the Committee on Halakha (Jewish law) of the Israel Rabbinical Assembly of the Masorti/Conservative Movement. All along these years, and until his moving to France in 2012, he delivered several lectures and learning series in many Jewish congregations in Israel and abroad. He taught, among others, at the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Temple Hillel of North Woodmere, the Judiska Församlingen of Stockholm and the Comunidad Bet El of Madrid. In 2012, after four years of interruption as congregational rabbi, Yosef took the rabbinical position at the Union Libérale Israélite de France in Paris, when that congregation was seeking to try a more traditional self-definition. During his two years stay in France he developed a prolific work as spiritual leader and Jewish educator. Still, the ideological divergences between the congregation lay leaders and Rabbi Kleiner proved to be deeper than what they had thought at the beginning. In spite of a thorough work done by both parts trying to overcome their dissimilarities, they arrived to the conclusion that the basic differences were too deep. In 2014 Yosef came back to Israel and