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Staff
Clergy
- Professional
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Clergy:
 Rabbi Mark David Finkel
973-244-9800, x 14
rabbifinkel@pbjc.org
Rabbi's Message
Rabbi Mark David Finkel is in his fourth year as Rabbi at the Pine Brook Jewish Center after having served as Rabbi of Beth Abraham in Nashua for almost 17 years. A native of Milton, Massachusetts, Rabbi Finkel graduated the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1979 after a year as a visiting student in Israel at the Hebrew University. Rabbi Finkel did his undergraduate work at New York University with a double major in Near Eastern Literature and Languages and economics. Rabbi Finkel also holds an MA in history from NYU, a Masters of Theology from the Harvard Divinity School, and a certificate in pastoral counseling from the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health. More recently, Rabbi Finkel received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2004 and from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2005. In his younger years, Rabbi Finkel spent summers at Camps Young Judea and Yavneh in New Hampshire, and in his teen years he attended and graduated the
Prozdor of the Hebrew College of Boston and served as New England Region President of USY. Rabbi Finkel’s previous pulpits were at Congregation Sons of Zion in Holyoke, Massachusetts and at Adath Israel of the Main Line in Merion, Pennsylvania as Associate Rabbi. During the summer of 1996, Rabbi Finkel served as visiting Rabbi in a new congregation in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. Rabbi Finkel is a member of both the Rabbinical Assembly, the Jewish Youth Directors Association, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. Rabbi Finkel is married to Abby Rosen Finkel and they are the proud parents of Liora, Eliana, and
Doron.
RABBI'S OFFICE HOURS:
please feel free to drop by and bring any questions or other matters to discuss with the Rabbi. Congregants are also free to make appointments at any other time with Arlene Lopez, Office Administrator, if these times are inconvenient for you.
There will be other exciting occasions to enrich your mind and spirit that are in the planning stages and will be announced soon.
 Cantor Menachem Toren
973-980-7777
email: pbjccantor@gmail.com
A love for Judaism and cantorial prayer has been the fabric of the Toren-Tirnover family for generations upon generations. Named after his paternal grandfather Mendel Tirnover, a famed Jerusalem Cantor, Cantor Toren is following in the footsteps of one of the most renowned cantorial families in Jerusalem.
Better known as “The Boy with the Kippa” in Israel ’s most popular children’s TV show, "Rich-Ratch" Cantor Menachem Toren has carried on his family’s legacy through officiating at sacred Jewish services in both Israel and the United States.
Daily, Cantor Toren works towards enriching the lives of his “extended family”, the Pine Brook Jewish Center congregants, through his passionate cantorial prayers and chants, preparing the Bar/Bat Mitzvah teens, working with the nursery school children and being evolved in every wing of the PBJC.
To hear the following chants clink on the links below:
Cantor Toren sings the blessings before the Torah Reading
Cantor Toren sings the blessing after the Torah Reading
Cantor Toren is also a Mohel. Click http://www.mohel.tv to access his website.
Cantor Toren teaching trope to
his adult students.
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Cantor Toren and religious school
staff lead students in song.
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