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Rabbi Mordecai Feuerstein began his rabbinic career at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He joined the Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center in Livingston, New Jersey in September 1999. Prior to moving to Livingston, Rabbi Feuerstein served as the spiritual leader of Congregation Schara Tzedeck in Vancouver, British Columbia for 15 years.
He and his wife, Shayndel (z"l), were instrumental in establishing an Orthodox elementary and high school in Vancouver. Maimonides Secondary School, was the first successful attempt to create a full-day Jewish high school.
Rabbi Feuerstein is a founding member of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of British Columbia and served as its president for 15 years. He is a member of the Rabbinical Council of America and the Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Metro West. He has taught Talmud at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School and serves on its Rabbinic Advisory Board.
A native of Brookline, Massachusetts, where he served as personal assistant to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Rabbi Feuerstein is a graduate of Harvard College (Magna Cum Laude), and received semicha from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He holds an MA in Jewish History from Harvard University and was both a Lady Davis Fellow and a National Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellow at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1980-1982.
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