Yosef Kleiner or Iosef Kleiner (Eduardo José Kleiner) (1963 - ) is an Israeli rabbi, psychologist, actor and intellectual born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 20, 1963. Between 1994 and 2014 he was the rabbi of the Comunidad Israelita Sefaradí, in Chile; Congregation Adat Shalom Emanuel in Rehovot, Israel and the Union Libérale Israélite de France (ULIF) in Paris. He is at present the rabbi of Congregation Moreshet Avraham in Jerusalem. Between 2000 and 2002 was a member of the Meimad Party Assembly, in Israel. In 2003 he was candidate of the independent party Kol Harehovotim to the Municipal Council of Rehovot. Since 2000 he had also several acting roles in Israel and has done many voice over and dubbing Works, both in Spanish and in Hebrew. At the same time he worked as a psychologist both in private and public practice in Israel. Yosef Kleiner speaks fluently Spanish, English, Hebrew, French and the Israeli Sign Language. Biography Early years He was born in Buenos Aires and is the third son of Enrique Samuel Kleiner (1929-2005) and Clara Rosenthal (1931-2013). His parents were second generation of Argentineans, born to immigrant Jewish families from Eastern Europe, who arrived in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century. His family was secular Jew with strong Jewish cultural values and identity and he was raised exposed to a considerable Jewish literature in Spanish that opened for him the first doors into Jewish tradition and its sense. As a teenager he was very active in the youth groups of the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina and very soon became evident his inclination to acting and writing. He was an active member of the youth theater group of Hebraica under the direction of Sergio Rosemblat. Jewish identity and religion Together with his love for acting, Yosef began developing a Jewish identity marked by a thorough personal quest between the cultural and the religious facets of Judaism. After his military service in Argentina, Yosef began high studies in Judaism at the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, the center for Conservative Judaism in South America. After four years he graduated from the Abarbanel Institute of the Seminario as Bachelor in Jewish Studies and Teacher. Following his graduation he was admitted into the "A.J. Heschel" Rabbinical School where he studied, among others, under the rabbis Marshall Meyer, Richard Freund, Shmuel Avidor Hacohen and Abraham Skorka. He finished his