Rabbi Cary Kozberg, Author at Dr. Rich Swier

About Rabbi Cary Kozberg

Rabbi Cary Kozberg has served as a pulpit rabbi, campus rabbi, and long-term care chaplain.

Rabbi Kozberg is a Certified Healthcare Chaplain with the National Association of Jewish Chaplains.

Rabbi Kozberg has been interested in personal self-defense for over four decades and has extensive training in the use of small firearms. He recently completed the Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy's handgun qualification test with a perfect score.

Entries by Rabbi Cary Kozberg

‘Before all hell breaks loose’

January 8, 2024/in Culture War, Elections, Gun Rights, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Rabbi Cary Kozberg

It’s time for American Jews to put their scruples aside and learn the responsible use of firearms. As I write this, Israel continues to mourn its deaths and fight its enemies. At the same time, the full extent of Hamas’s savagery has been revealed. Some of the world supports and empathizes with Israel, but much […]

Learning to Shoot and Not Drown

January 8, 2024/in Gun Rights, Hot Topics, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by Rabbi Cary Kozberg

In the Talmud, Tractate Kiddushin (29a), we learn: “The father is bound in respect of his son to circumcise, redeem (if the son is a first-born), teach him Torah, marry him off, and teach him a craft. There are those who say: to also teach him to swim. Why “teach him to swim”? The commentator Rashi explains that […]