Coney Island, NY – Brooklyn Rabbi Wins Beard Contest

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    Rabbi Abraham Abraham Coney Island, NY – A Brooklyn rabbi has won the mustache, beard and sideburns competition by a whisker.

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    Organizers say Rabbi Abraham Abraham edged out around 20 other competitors to win the facial hair standoff in Coney Island. He took the trophy for the best groomed beard and mustache.

    Abraham says he’s been growing his Santa Claus-style beard and starched mustache for about 50 years. He says after a shower he uses hair gel to sculpt them.

    Other competitors included a man who shaved his head leaving just a strip of hair across the top to connect his sideburns and another man whose sideburns were growing down to his chest.

    The Coney Island Beard and Moustache Competition was held by the nonprofit community organization Coney Island USA at a circus sideshow theater.

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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    we’re number 1!!!! 🙂

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    What kind of Rabbi sculpts his beard with gel after the shower.

    toraheyes
    toraheyes
    16 years ago

    CONGRATS, coney island is the best.

    Tachlis
    Tachlis
    16 years ago

    Finally a rabbi of the 21st century. just look at that picture, oh such nachas, wev’e finally moved on from being stuck in the 13th century CHASSIDIM TAKE NOTICE TIMEs ARE B”H FINALLY CHANGING

    Enough
    Enough
    16 years ago

    Get a life. He is not a Rabbi! I know this guy, so give me a break.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    he was passach at the bikur cholim room in boro park

    he came with someone from the bnei-menasheh

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    He ain’t no Rabbi

    anonymous
    anonymous
    16 years ago

    Abraham Abraham Vyomer Henanu”

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    maybe he is Rabbi Santa Claus.

    m hatznioss
    m hatznioss
    16 years ago

    if he is a rabbi where is his shmone bgodim?

    chochem
    chochem
    16 years ago

    I was going to enter, but couldn’t because the contest was on Shabbos. How did this rabbi enter and win?

    yankel
    yankel
    16 years ago

    He’s no rabbi – he participates in the Mermaid Parade.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    what a RABBI!!!! gosh, this is so pathetic!!!

    Moishe
    Moishe
    16 years ago

    It’s unfair to hold a beard competition on Shabbos. The majority of bearded men are forbidden by halacha from entering. Now, if it was a Sunday they would have had many more than the dozen contestants that they had. A class action suite is called for.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    It must be his beard that makes him a “Rabbi”…

    LEMAYSA
    LEMAYSA
    16 years ago

    He is the Clauzsu Rebbe…

    Genius
    Genius
    16 years ago

    Its the crown that makes him a rabbis! The beard was just to enter the competition!

    GREY BEARD
    GREY BEARD
    16 years ago

    Not such of a beard – look at the bare spots. If he’s the winner the others must have been clean shaven. I could have been a winner if I entered.

    Choizik
    Choizik
    16 years ago

    Where did he get Smicha from? What does he hold of the Eruv? Where will he be giving his Shabbos Shuva Drasha?

    Lock & Load
    Lock & Load
    16 years ago

    I know him…

    He is part of the Polar Bear Club

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    First of all – the contest didn’t begin until 9 PM. Shabbos was over by then, so stop complaining that you couldn’t enter.

    Second – he did not win all of the categories this article says he won. He won “Best Styled Beard”. Other people won “best moustache (styled and natural)” and “best overall”

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Yes, he probably doesn’t have Smicha (or maybe he does?) but he is a real character! I’ve known him for years, you can’t miss him, he dresses all in white, wears a huge medallion, & uses the most eloquent, complicated, & often fawning vocabulary. But he’s a good soul, kind, and means well. He’s just really eccentric. So what? Go, Rabbi Abe!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Definetly not a mainstream Rabbi!

    Allan
    Allan
    16 years ago

    I’ve run accross him several times up in the mountains…and he is a character…..but appears to be harmless.

    Oiberchochom
    Oiberchochom
    16 years ago

    Lock & Load you are right on target, for those who aren’t familiar with the Polar Bear club, they go swimming in the coldest days of winter in thee ocean at Coney Island!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Amazing!!!

    They had the same contest in Israel and it was won by the Machnivka Rebbe

    Laidi Gayer
    Laidi Gayer
    16 years ago

    Forget about his beard. Where is his yarmulke?

    where is his shirt

    Library Lover
    Library Lover
    16 years ago

    Ive seen him in the meat store in Flatbush, yes he IS in the polar bear club..he is definitely NOT a Rabbi, and Ive spoken to him too…hes a bit eccentric but harmless…

    Mbssp
    Mbssp
    16 years ago

    In these days anyone can be a rabbi, who has oversite– try it 🙂

    bigwheeel
    bigwheeel
    16 years ago

    He is the Rabbi of the Polar Bears! But where is his T.K.??? And towards the end of December he dresses in a red Bekishe and [Red] Spodik and takes (or plays) Kvitlach!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    A Yarmulke? He wears a crown! He probably was crowned a Rabbi.