Graduates from the University of California, Santa Barbara are known for all sorts of accomplishments. The list of alumni includes everyone from scientists to musicians, and everything in between.

Most surfers wouldn’t trade the waves of Melbourne, Australia, for those of Long Beach, L.I. — but the Surfing Rabbi did. After all, whatever the size of the waves, the prospects for Jewish outreach ...

Scattered among the books at Rabbi Donald Kunstadt's office at Springhill Avenue Temple are mementos related to the coast - acrylic art of sailboats on the water, which he painted, and a regatta ...

The Sept. 16 piece, “Hanging Ten For A Minyan,” on Rabbi Eli Goodman, the “surfing Rabbi,” reminded me of a Talmudic story about Rabbi Akiva, in the first recorded instance of surfing some 1,600 years ...

California state senate candidate and Tea Party activist Rabbi Nachum Shifren attends far-right group's London protest outside Israeli Embassy.