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Rabbi Finkel served for eighteen years as Rabbi at the Pine Brook Jewish Center after having served as Rabbi of Beth Abraham in Nashua, New Hampshire for almost seventeen 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. He did his undergraduate work at New York University with a double major in Near Eastern Literature and Languages and Economics. He also holds an MA in history from NYU and a Masters of Theology from the Harvard Divinity School. Rabbi Finkel received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2004 and from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2005. He is certified in pastoral counseling from the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health. 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 other 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 the Rabbinical Assembly where he served as Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice President of the New Jersey Region. Rabbi Finkel was actively involved with the Montville clergy and was a visible “ambassador” in a variety of religious and civic events and concerns in the greater Montville community. Rabbi and Abby enjoy theater and cultural events with their family. Their favorite place to unwind is Cape Cod. |