Rabbi Eli Babich joined the Fifth Avenue Synagogue as Assistant Rabbi in 2013 and was appointed Rabbi in 2019. He has imparted wisdom, meaning, and inspiration from the bimah and through many classes.
Lisa is a born and bred New Yorker who was raised in Queens, New York. She is a full time Rebbetzin and speech and language pathologist. Lisa has been involved in teaching outreach from the young age of 19.
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.
Chaim Stern currently teaches a high-level course on Ketzos HaChoshen at Fifth Avenue Synagogue. Chaim is global head of alternative risk solutions at Goldman Sachs.
Zak's love for music was ignited at a young age in his hometown of London. At the age of 14, Zak led his first High Holiday services, and since then, he has been engaged with Shuls in many communities globally.
Joseph Malovany possesses a brilliant spinto tenor voice, described by the London Guardian as "most powerful, beautiful and expressive spinto technique... sturdy and heroic".
Dr. Eitan Lipsky is currently an internal medicine resident at Lincoln Medical Center before beginning his Neurology training at Northshore University and Long Island Jewish hospitals.
Rabbi Yaakov Y. Kermaier served as the spiritual leader of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue from October 2003 to June 2015, when he and his family made Aliyah.