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.
we’re number 1!!!! 🙂
What kind of Rabbi sculpts his beard with gel after the shower.
CONGRATS, coney island is the best.
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
Get a life. He is not a Rabbi! I know this guy, so give me a break.
he was passach at the bikur cholim room in boro park
he came with someone from the bnei-menasheh
He ain’t no Rabbi
Abraham Abraham Vyomer Henanu”
maybe he is Rabbi Santa Claus.
if he is a rabbi where is his shmone bgodim?
I was going to enter, but couldn’t because the contest was on Shabbos. How did this rabbi enter and win?
He’s no rabbi – he participates in the Mermaid Parade.
what a RABBI!!!! gosh, this is so pathetic!!!
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.
It must be his beard that makes him a “Rabbi”…
He is the Clauzsu Rebbe…
Its the crown that makes him a rabbis! The beard was just to enter the competition!
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.
Where did he get Smicha from? What does he hold of the Eruv? Where will he be giving his Shabbos Shuva Drasha?
I know him…
He is part of the Polar Bear Club
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”
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!!
Definetly not a mainstream Rabbi!
I’ve run accross him several times up in the mountains…and he is a character…..but appears to be harmless.
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!
Amazing!!!
They had the same contest in Israel and it was won by the Machnivka Rebbe
Forget about his beard. Where is his yarmulke?
where is his shirt
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…
In these days anyone can be a rabbi, who has oversite– try it 🙂
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!!!
A Yarmulke? He wears a crown! He probably was crowned a Rabbi.