Assistant Rabbi Search: Q & A with Rabbi Binyamin Silver
The YISE Board and Rabbi Rosenbaum have approved three potential candidates for the position of Assistant Rabbi.
Our second candidate was Rabbi Binyamin Silver. Rabbi Silver visited our shul the weekend of June 9-10.
On the Sunday of their visit each candidate will attend a meet & greet in the Social Hall, followed by a Q & A session with the Congregation. Questions have both been submitted in advance by email and submitted in writing at the event.
To hear Rabbi Silver's Q & A session click the link below:
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Rabbi Binyamin Silver:
- Semicha (Yoreh Yoreh)—Rabbi Moshe Shternbuch, Ravad of Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem—7/2010
- Studied at Ner Israel Rabbinical College for many years
- J.D., Hofstra University School of Law—5/2013; Masters of Ed.—Loyola University of Chicago—5/2009
- Assistant Rabbi—Young Israel of Long Beach (NY)—10/2011-present
- Rabbinic Intern—Young Israel of Long Beach (NY)—9/2009-9/2011
- Summer Rabbi—Knesset Eliyahoo Synagogue (Mumbai, India)—Summer, 2008
- Engaged to be married this August