Officially ordained in 2000 at the University of Judaism with a Master’s in Rabbinic Literature, Rabbi Mark Borovitz combined his knowledge of Torah and street smarts to shape his calling: helping recovering addicts find their way in the world. Spiritual Leader, Author, Senior Rabbi, CEO, ex-con, recovering alcoholic, and overall anomaly, he can reach both the addict and the congregant, and de-stigmatize this life- threatening disease.
As the former CEO and Senior Rabbi of Beit T’Shuvah, a nonprofit, non-sectarian, Jewish addiction treatment center and synagogue community he is living proof that change is possible; when speaking to the congregant, he stands for the hope that every man has a higher purpose.
After being released from prison in 1988 he began his work at Beit T’Shuvah. Over the past almost four decades, he has helped co-create one of the most exceptional approaches to addiction treatment and criminal rehabilitation and reintegration in the world.
Rabbi Mark has been featured in articles in the Los Angeles Times, Moment Magazine, The Jewish Journal, The Wall Street Journal and newspapers across the world, including Israel’s largest publication, Haaretz Daily Newspaper, along with his wife, Harriet Rossetto.
They are both featured in a documentary “The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief.”
