Rabbi Elazar Muskin
E-mail: rabbimuskin@gmail.com 

Rabbi Elazar Muskin assumed the rabbinic leadership of Young Israel of Century City in January 1986. Under his leadership, the congregation has become one of the fastest growing Orthodox synagogues in the West Coast, and is considered a leader in creative adult education programs. The synagogue was awarded the national citation from the Orthodox Union for its Annual Adult Education Program Calendar and the Tikun Olam Award for its varied Chesed Programs. Prior to becoming Rabbi of Young Israel of Century City, Rabbi Muskin served for five years as the Rabbi of the Mt. Sinai Jewish Center in New York City.

Before entering the rabbinate, Rabbi Muskin served as Executive Director of T'chiya Volunteers, an organization dedicated to serving development towns in Israel. Rabbi Muskin directed T'chiya for eleven years, helping establish it as a premier summer program for American college students interested in volunteering in Israel.

Rabbi Muskin studied in Israel at Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh from 1972-1975. He continued his studies at Yeshiva College, where he earned his B.A. in Psychology. He received his Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He also earned a Master’s degree in Medieval Jewish Philosophy from the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and a Master’s degree in Education from Columbia University.

Rabbi Muskin has published a number of scholarly and popular articles and has lectured in numerous communities in the United States, Europe and Israel. He is a contributing columnist for the weekly Torah Portion article which appears in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal newspaper, and has written frequently for AMIT Magazine and Olam. He also published a monograph on the Jewish attitude towards racism for the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). Appointed by Mayor Hahn, Rabbi Muskin served for four years as a Commissioner on the Human Relations Commission of the City of Los Angeles. He is the past National Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America and past president of the Rabbinical Council of California, after serving as president from 1992-1997.

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Audio

Many of Rabbi Muskin's shiurim can be heard here on: YICC's Torah On The Web.

(Since the following are hosted on other websites, links are not guaranteed.)

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A Fish In Water - The Yeshiva University Commentator - 30 August 2004

 

Rabbi Zev Goldberg

Rabbi Zev Goldberg grew up in Teaneck, NJ. He spent two years studying in Israel, at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh. He graduated with honors from Yeshiva College, with a BA in Economics. Prior to joining our synagogue as the Rabbinic Fellow, Rabbi Goldberg was the rabbinic intern at the prestigious Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side of New York. Rabbi Goldberg also worked as a rabbinic intern in Livingston, NJ and Riverdale, NY. Additionally, Rabbi Goldberg was a member of the Jewish Center's Sanford Lurie Scholars program. He has also participated in a YU leadership program in which he traveled frequently to Charleston, SC to deliver Torah classes to both adults and youth of the Jewish community. Rabbi Goldberg, his wife Michal, and their daughter Meira now make their home in Beverly Hills. Rabbi Goldberg can be reached at ZevGoldberg@yicc.org