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Rabbi Shmuel Goldin | Bio
| 1973 |
B.S. Psychology, Yeshiva University,
Magna Cum Laude |
| 1976 |
Rabbinic Ordination, Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University |
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Master of Arts in Jewish Education,
Ferkauf Graduate School, Yeshiva University |
Rabbi Goldin has served as spiritual leader of Congregation
Ahavath Torah in Englewood, New Jersey, for the past 17 years.
He is an instructor of Bible and Philosophy at the Isaac Breuer
College and the James Striar School of Yeshiva University;
the founding director and lecturer at The Eve Flechner Torah
Institute - an institute of Torah study serving the Bergen
County community; has lectured in the adult education department
at the Jewish Community Center on the Palisades and has served
on the faculty of numerous other institutes. Rabbi Goldin
is the current President of Rabbinic Alumni of Yeshiva University;
past president of the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County
and former Chairman of its Kashruth Committee; former Rabbinic
advisor to the Jewish Youth Encounter Program, and a member
of the Board of Directors of the Sinai Learning Disabilities
Program of New Jersey. He serves on the Executive Committee
of the Rabbinical Council of America; is a member of the U.J.A.
Rabbinic Cabinet; a member of the Rabbinic Cabinet of Israel
Bonds, and a charter member of the Rabbinic Alumni Cabinet
of Yeshiva University. Additionally, Rabbi Goldin is a member
of the advisory board of EDAH; a past member of the Executive
Committee of the United Jewish Appeal of Bergen County and
current member of the board; a member of the board of the
Jewish Community Relations Council of Bergen County, and a
member of the board of the Orthodox Caucus.
He is also a founder and acting chairman of Shvil Hazahav
- a national membership organization of Orthodox Jews representing
a moderate voice within the American Orthodox religious Zionist
community. In this aegis, Rabbi Goldin has played a major
role in fostering dialogue between the Israeli government
and the American Orthodox community concerning the ongoing
Israeli-Arab peace process. Most recently, Shvil Hazahav has
also been involved in forging high level dialogue in the United
States with Conservative and Reform Jewry.
Rabbi Goldin has received numerous awards including the following:
Bnei Akiva - Rabbinic Leadership Award (1997); ECHO; Yeshiva
University - Rabbinic Alumni Award (1991); Sinai Learning
Disabilities Program of Bergen County (1987); Orthodox Union
- Rabbinic Leadership Award (1986); NCSY; Yachad; Hebrew Free
Burial Society; Shvut Ami, and many others. He was selected
as "1994 Newsmaker of the Year" by The Jewish Standard, a
weekly Jewish news publication of Bergen and Hudson Counties.
He has been featured every year since in the Jewish Standard's
list of prominent Bergen County newsmakers. Additionally,
Rabbi Goldin was recently chosen as a "young Jewish leader
in the New York area", honored as one of a group of 45 leaders
by the Jewish Week of New York.
Noted as one of the most articulate spokesmen in the Orthodox
community today, Rabbi Goldin has developed an innovative
educational approach to Torah study, Jewish law and Jewish
identity, which is enthusiastically received by traditional
and non-traditional Jews alike. In April 2000, Rabbi Goldin
delivered a ground-breaking lecture at the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America concerning interdenominational relations
titled 'Why Can't We All Just Get Along: An Orthodox Rabbi's
View on Pluralism". He has lectured extensively throughout
the world in a wide variety of synagogue and communal settings.
He regularly leads congregational missions to Israel, particularly
during critical times (11 missions in total, including 2 this
year); under his guidance, Congregation Ahavath Torah was
the first American synagogue to visit Israel during the Iraqi
scud attacks. In 1999, Rabbi Goldin participated in a volunteer
humanitarian mission to Kosovar refugee camps in Macedonia.
Rabbi Goldin joined with 5 other Rabbis in sponsoring a large
interdenominational grassroots rally in solidarity with Israel
on June 3, 2001. This Rabbinic committee is presently planning
additional events.
More recently Rabbi Goldin has authored several articles on the peace process, Israel-Diaspora relations, interdenominational dialogue, and other current issues which have appeared in prominent publications in America and abroad.
Rabbi Goldin and his wife, Barbara, are the proud parents of Avi and his wife Rena, Yossie and his wife Shifra, Yehuda, Donny and Rivka.
They are also the delighted grandparents of Isaac, Ben, Temima Zahava and Yaakov.
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