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
SEMICHA FROM RABBI DAVID WEISS HALIVNI, ZTZ”L
1990 – 1994 Yeshivat Bayit Chadash, Carlebach Institute, Torah Lishmah TALMID MUVHAK OF RABBI SHLOMO CARLEBACH, ZTZ”L
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
Member of the RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY
Multilingual: fluency in English, Hebrew, French, Arabic, Aramaic, Yiddish, and soon – Russian
Musical skills: singing, violin, mandolin, dumbek, djembai, and tambourine
Band leader: Ashira Klezmer Orchestra 1993 – 1998
Father of two daughters (Abu el- Banat): Tifarah and Yisraela
Sterling Lineage:
Father was an electronics engineer and played a large role in many 20th century technological developments in radio, color television, satellite infrared detection, facsimile machines, dot com and was an early internet pioneer. Founding member of the IEEE.
Mother was a Hebrew Scholar, a Jewish Educator and an expert in Biblical literature.
I believe we have the finest Rabbi in the city. I am proud to be part of his congregation!