Rabbi Daniel Jeshurun Vargas born in New York City, his family originates from Joppa Israel, and moved to Hawaii in 1982

 

Rabbi Daniel has strong ties with Israel as a tour group host to Israel, and has a great passion for the hurting children of Israel that have suffering in hospitals as a result of bombings.

 

Today, Rabbi Daniel serves as president and founder of Beth Israel Jewish Ministries International located in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is also manager of Hawaii’s America Israel Travel Inc.  Plans for year 2007 include the opening of Israel College of The Bible where Jews and Gentiles can learn about the rich Judeo heritage and about the people and land of Israel.

 

Since 2002, Beth Israel has put together an annual support Israel rally with emphasis on understanding the struggles of the Jewish people and developing friendship between the people of Hawaii and Israel.

 

A reunion between holocaust survivors and holocaust liberators.

Rabbi Daniel has been working on a project to bring together the survivors and liberators of the world war two holocausts. Daniel has met with a number of the liberator soldiers of the 552 US Army division of Honolulu Hawaii who have expressed interest in meeting survivors they helped liberate.

 

Wedding Officiant:

For those desiring a Jewish wedding, we provide services for marriage and rededicate of marriage vows in Hebrew, English or Spanish, and marriage counseling a copy of a Hebrew ceremony can be mailed to couples outside of Hawaii for review.  Our ceremonies are customized to suit the couples desire and need. The wedding can be a simple Jewish wedding or we can be a full on ceremony with as many Jewish traditions as one desires.

 

Things we can provide for a Jewish wedding or rededication of marriage vows.

We provide at additional cost, a chuppah, Ketubah, a kippot for the groom, the traditional ceremonial breaking of class, ceremonial wine, and at the request of the couple, a blowing of a shofar is available.  Jewish wedding gifts and other specific Jewish wedding items can be added with enough notice.