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Fifth Avenue Synagogue
5 East 62nd Street
New York, NY 10065
Phone : 212.838.2122
FAX : 212.319.6119
Contact the Synagogue
Please feel free to contact the synagogue with specific questions and concerns. The office telephone number is 212 838 2122 or email the individual staff member by clicking on the emails below
 
Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier - Rabbi
rabbi@5as.org
Rabbi Yaakov Y. Kermaier is the spiritual leader of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue.  He is President of the New York Board of Rabbis, a member of the UJA-Federation Board of Directors, a member of the Executive Board of the Rabbinical Council of America and a member of AIPAC's National Council.
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Rabbi Sol Roth - Rabbi Emeritus
Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth received a B.A. from Yeshiva College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.  [more...]
Cantor Joseph Malovany - Cantor
Joseph Malovany possesses a brilliant spinto tenor voice, described by the London Guardian as "most powerful, beautiful and expressive spinto technique...sturdy and heroic" and by the Swedish newspaper Goteborgs Posten as "Judaism's Jussi Bjorling".   [more...]
Yisroel Halpert - Ritual Director
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Rabbi Seth Grauer - Assistant Rabbi
rabbigrauer@5as.org

In addition to being the assistant rabbi at the 5th Avenue Synogogue, Rabbi Seth Grauer is currently in his 7th year as a faculty member at the Ramaz Upper School.

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Paulette Stein-Meyer - Director, Creative Playschool
paulette@5as.org

Paulette is the director of our own Creative Playschool at Fifth Avenue Synagogue. For the past fifteen years, she has led our school with warmth, wisdom, and talent. She has taken the fifth floor of the Synagogue and turned it into an astonishing children’s wonderland.
Sheila Montgomery - Office Manager
sheila@5as.org
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Maggie Moronta - Financial Manager
maggie@5as.org

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Rivkah Halpert - Junior Congregation
Rivkah Halpert organizes and co-ordinates our children's services every Shabbat and Yom Tov.
Judy Geldzahler - Religious School
 
Atara Eis - Yoetzet Halacha
ataraeis@gmail.com

Atara Eis is a graduate of Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Institute and a trained halalchic guide (yoetzet halacha) in matters of family purity. She has also completed Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women.
Our Officers
Professor William Schwartz
Chairman

Walter J. Molofsky, M.D.
President

Mitchell Davidson
Vice President

Jacques Blinbaum
Vice President

Rochelle Hirsch
Vice President

Theodore Mirvis
Vice President

Laurence Rabinowitz
Vice President

Lauren K. Merkin
Secretary

Marc Schwartzberg
Treasurer
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