David Lapin

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David Lapin was born in South Africa to a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent. He is the son of the late Rabbi A.H. Lapin (1912-1991), senior rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg, and chief rabbi of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation and brother of well known Rabbi Daniel Lapin and of Rabbi Raphael Lapin.

Lapin is currently the CEO of Strategic Business Ethics, Inc., now a California-based international consulting company that he founded in 1981 and Chairman of YSA-LAPIN, a consulting company based in South Africa specializing in strategy, culture, and leadership. He lives in Los Angeles but spends much of his time traveling internationally on lecture tours and consulting projects. He has over 30 years of global speaking experience and has been widely published.

David Lapin is also an internationally renowned Rabbi and teacher of Torah. His Torah website, iAwaken.org, hosts nearly 1,000 of his audio tapes (in MP3 format) and written essays. iAwaken.org has members from around the globe.

Lapin’s career has included many years of international business at senior levels and rabbinic leadership. He was a formerly a leader of the Pacific Jewish Center, an Orthodox synagogue in Venice, California founded by his brother Daniel Lapin. He founded the Keter Torah Congregation in Johannesburg South Africa in 1975 and led it until his emigration from South Africa in 1997.

David Lapin, studied Legal and Moral Philosophy, Talmudic Logic, Business Law, Religion and Ethics at leading Talmudic colleges in the UK and Israel. He has been active in international business for more than thirty years. Before founding his consulting practice he worked as the head of the non-ferrous metals and minerals division of an international commodity trading company where he interacted with business leaders in over 25 countries. At the same time he taught widely; his over 1,000 audiotapes are listened to around the world.

The Founder of the South African Institute of Business Ethics and author of that country’s Code of Ethics, David did groundbreaking work in the field of building trust in environments of extreme cultural diversity. With this work, he played an active role alongside some of South Africa’s greatest leaders in transforming the country from a repressive apartheid regime to a vibrant new democracy.

In 1997, Rabbi David Lapin moved his successful Management Consulting practice’s head office from South Africa to Los Angeles. In March 2006, SBE merged with YSA, a South African Leadership Development Consultancy now known as YSA-Lapin, of which he is the Chairman.

Abramoff Scandal

Events & scandals

Plead guilty

Jack Abramoff (70 months)
John Albaugh
Jared Carpenter (45 days)
Robert Coughlin
Italia Federici (2 months)
J. Steven Griles (10 months)
William Heaton (24 months probation)
Adam Kidan (70 months)
Bob Ney (30 months)
Tony Rudy
Michael Scanlon
Roger Stillwell (24 months probation)
Neil Volz (24 months probation)
Mark Zachares

Convicted

David Safavian (18 months)

Named but not charged

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Lapin met Jack Abramoff while Abramoff was visiting South Africa during his International Freedom Foundation/Red Scorpion years. He tutored Abramoff in Talmud and Jewish law, during Abramoff's process of embracing Orthodox Judaism.[1]

In 2002 Lapin agreed to leave his part time job of Senior Rabbi at Pacific Jewish Center in Los Angeles in order to become the Dean of the Judaic Studies at Eshkol Academy, an orthodox Jewish school in Maryland founded by Abramoff.