Joomla! site syndication http://www.yctorah.org 2008-07-05T19:52:17+01:00 http://www.yctorah.org http://www.yctorah.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2006-10-05T12:53:09+01:00 http://www.yctorah.org http://www.yctorah.org/content/view/120/49/ For the hale and hardy residents of Portland, Maine, the young bearded man standing in front of the downtown branch of Starbucks must have been quite an unusual sight. Wearing a black velvet yarmulke and wrapped in a long, flowing tallis was Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld, who had recently been hired as the spiritual leader of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh, the oldest active Orthodox synagogue in Maine.