Experience

Dean of Faculty and Instructor in Jewish Literature

Mesifta Adath Wolkowisk - The Rabbinal Academy, Woodmere, NY

Rabbi Emeritus, The Free Synagogue of Flushing, Flushing, NY

Director, Family Center for Mental Health, Great Neck, NY

Teacher of Hebrew and Common Branches, N.Y.C. Public School System

Lecturer in Marriage and Parenting, C.W. Post College, Long Island, NY

Lecturer in Hebrew Grammar, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, NY

Chaplain, Queens House of Detention for Men, Kew Gardens, NY

Chaplain, Officer on active duty, United States Army

Rabbi and Director of Religious Education, Temple Beth El, Somerville, NJ

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Education

Jewish Teachers Seminary-Herzliah 
(Touro College), Doctor of Jewish Literature

Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, N.Y.C.
- Doctor of Divinity
- Rabbinic Ordination
- Master of Arts in Hebrew Literature
- Bachelor of Hebrew Literature
- Bachelor of Arts, (Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY)

Long Island Institute for Mental Health, Forest Hills, NY
- Marital and Family Therapy

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Professional Certifications

New York State Teacher's Certificate 
for Hebrew in Secondary Schools

New York City Teacher's License 
for Common Branches (Elementary Education)

Religious School Principal's Certificate, 
Hebrew Union School of Education, N.Y.C.

Marital & Family Therapist, Long Island Institute for Mental Health, NY

 

Organizational Affiliation and Community Service

Flushing Hospital & Medical Center, 
Bio-Ethics Committee

The Central Conference of American Rabbis

The New York Board of Rabbis

Committee Member, School Board #25, Queens, NY (Term Expired)

The Hevesi Jewish Library, Trustee, 
Queens College, Queens, NY

The New York & Long Island Association 
of Reform Rabbis

American Mental Health Counselors Association

American Professional Guidance Association

The Association of Jewish Chaplains of the Armed Forces

Queens Interfaith Clergy Council

Salvation Army, Flushing, NY, Chapter 
Executive Committee (Term Expired)

Catholic-Jewish Relations Committee of Queens, NY

North Shore Clergy Council, Queens, NY

Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Louis Blum Post, Flushing, NY

Boy Scouts of America, Queens Committeeman (Term Expired)

American Red Cross, North Shore Chapter 
Board of Directors (Term Expired)

Queens Jewish Community Council, Board of Directors

Chaplain of the Queens County Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. (Term Expired)

National Association of Jewish Chaplains