Henry Sobel

Henry Isaac Sobel (9 January 1944 – 22 November 2019) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian-American reform rabbi. He was president of the Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP), a major Jewish congregation in São Paulo, Brazil.

On March 23, 2007, Sobel was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, accused of shoplifting US$680 worth of neckties. He was released on a $3,000 bail and returned to São Paulo. 

Sobel died of lung cancer on 22 November 2019 in Miami, Florida at the age of 75.

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