I was raised in New Jersey and Minnesota, going to college at the University of Michigan and receiving my rabbinic ordination as a Reform Rabbi in 1983. I served as a congregational rabbi 5 years in Wausau, Wisconsin and 32 years in Pittsburgh PA. I am a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and a Rabbinic Fellow of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality.. I was recently appointed Lecturer in Catholic-Jewish Studies at St. Vincent's College in Latrobe, PA. .I serve on the Human Relations Commission of the City of Pittsburgh. I am married, with 3 sons, a daughter-in-law and 2 grandchildren. I am now the Emeritus Rabbi of Temple Sinai, where I served as Senior Rabbi since 1988.
