RABBINIC ALUMNI LEADERSHIP
Rabbi Dr. Solomon F. Rybak
President
Rabbi Dr. Solomon F. Rybak received his BA from Yeshiva College and his MA and PhD from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. He received semikhah ordination from RIETS and has devoted himself to Jewish education and the rabbinate ever since. Rabbi Rybak is the mara d’atra of Congregation Adas Israel in Passaic, New Jersey and serves on the Jewish studies faculty of Touro College.
Rabbi Dovid Kupchik
Vice President
Rabbi Kupchik received semikhah from RIETS and holds a master’s degree in Jewish education from the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration.
Rabbi Kupchik is the principal at HAFTR Middle School, where he also served as menahel and, prior to that, director of Judaic studies. He previously worked for four years at Yeshiva Har Torah as a rebbe and director of student activities.
Rabbi Moshe Neiss
Vice President
Rabbi Moshe Neiss is an attorney in private practice. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University High School for Boys/MTA, Yeshiva College, RIETS, and Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He has served on the MTA Board.
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg
Treasurer
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg has been Rav of Congregation Etz Chaim of Kew Gardens Hills for more than decade, before which he served as Associate Rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center.
A musmakh of Yeshiva University, where he also earned his undergraduate degree in English, Rabbi Rosenberg serves on the Executive Board of the Rabbinical Council of America and teaches Judaic studies at the SAR Academy in Riverdale.
Rabbi Gideon Shloush
Vice President
Rabbi Shloush studied at Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh in Israel during the Gulf War in 1990-91. He graduated from Yeshiva College with a degree in economics in 1993. Three years later, he received Semikhah from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and an MBA from Baruch College.
Rabbi Gideon Shloush is Rabbi of Congregation Adereth El, serving the Murray Hill, Gramercy Park, and Kips Bay neighborhoods of Manhattan and an adjunct professor at Stern College for Women, where he teaches Jewish Studies.
Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg
Director, Morris and Gertrude Bienenfeld
Department of Jewish Career Development and Placement
Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg, a graduate of Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College and Ferkauf School of Psychology, received his ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS).
The former longtime spiritual leader of Congregation Ahavas Achim in Highland Park, New Jersey, Rabbi Schwarzberg is now the Director of the Morris and Gertrude Bienenfeld Department of Jewish Career Development and Placement, a division of Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future.
Rabbi Elly Krimsky
Assistant Director
Rabbi Krimsky serves as Assistant Director of Jewish Career Development and Placement, Director of RIETS Rabbinic Alumni and the Coordinator of the Or Chadash Fellowships program, an outreach training program for senior rabbinical students.
Rabbi Krimsky is a graduate of Yeshiva College and he received Rabbinic Ordination from Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg, president of the Rabbinic Court of Jerusalem; Rabbi Ephraim Greenblatt of Memphis, TN; and Rabbi Yeshaya Steinberger of the Ramot Sharrett and Ramot Danya neighborhoods of Jerusalem.