A LIFE OF SERVICE:
2022 – present Rabbi, Temple Beth El of Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, NY
2022 – present Lecturer, Jewish Spirituality, JASA Center, Brooklyn, NY
2007 – 2022 Rabbi, Temple Israel of the Poconos, Stroudsburg, PA
2007 – 2022 Volunteer Jewish Chaplain, Monroe County Correctional Institute
2018 – 2022 Volunteer Chaplain, Gluco Lodge Personal Care Home, Stroudsburg, PA
2004 – 2006 Middle School Judaic Instructor, Solomon Schechter, Manhattan
2001 – 2004 Rabbi, Congregation Agudas Israel, Newburgh, NY
1998 – 2000 Assistant Rabbi Congregation Shaarie Torah, Portland, OR
1994 – 1998 Ritual Director, JCC of Ft. Lee, NJ
1990 – 1994 Ritual Director, Temple Beth El of Rockaway Park, Queens, NY
1989 – 1990 Ritual Director, Temple Hillel, North Woodmere, NY
1986 – 1989 Chaplain, Fall River Jewish Home for the Aged, Fall River, MA
1982- 1985 Judaic Instructor, Merrimack Valley Hebrew Academy, Lowell, MA
1976 – 1981 Educational Staff; Camp Ramah of the Berkshires
Prepared and trained over 500 students for their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs over the span of four decades
EDUCATION
1994 – 1998 Rabbinical Ordination; The Metivta, Institute of Traditional Judaism; Talmudic Studies, Codes, Tanach, Midrash, Rabbinic Commentaries, Rishonim, Acharonim, Homiletics, Pastoral Counseling; Teaneck, NJ
1990 – 1994 Yeshivat Bayit Chadash, Carlebach Institute, Torah Lishmah
1982 – 1985 M. J. Ed. Hebrew College, Brookline, MA
1975 – 1981 B.A., Brandeis University, Waltham, MA History, NEJS; Teaching Certification, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1979 – 80 Young Judaea Year Course, Kibbutz Gesher Haziv, Israel; Kibbutz studies, Avocados, Plastics and Bananas
1978 – 79 University of Haifa; Zionist History and Philosophy, Haifa, Israel, Pardes Institute of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem, Israel
MISCELLANEOUS
Multilingual: fluency in English, Hebrew, French, Arabic, Aramaic, Yiddish, and soon – Russian
Musical skills: singing, violin, mandolin, dumbek, jembai, and tambourine
Father of two daughters (Abu el- Banat): Tifarah and Yisraela
Sterling Lineage:
Father was an electronic engineer and played a large role in many 20th century technological developments in radio, color television, satellite infrared detection, facsimile machines, dot com and internet pioneer
Mother was a Hebrew Scholar, a Jewish Educator and an expert in Biblical literature