Eric Yanoff – Adath Israel
Tale-Spinner, Cyclist to Nowhere, Passionately Moderate
Rabbi Eric Yanoff received his rabbinic ordination and a MA in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City in 2004. While at JTS, Rabbi Yanoff interned at Temple Israel in White Plains, served as a hospital chaplain at Westchester Medical Center, and taught Bible, Talmud, Philosophy, and Drama at the Solomon Schechter High School of New York. Rabbi Yanoff majored in Comparative Literature with a concentration in Jewish Studies at Princeton University. As President of the Princeton Triangle Club, Rabbi Yanoff also co-wrote and produced several musical comedies which toured around the country.
From 2004 to 2010, Rabbi Yanoff served Congregation Shaarey Zedek in the suburbs of Detroit, where he led several trips to Israel for teens, adults, and clergy colleagues. He is Past President of the West Bloomfield Interfaith Clergy Association and Community Forum, and currently serves as the Rabbi for Golden Slipper in Philadelphia, as well as on boards and committees for Camp Ramah in the Poconos, the Rabbinical Assembly, and Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. He is currently Co-President of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia, and a member of the Clergy at Adath Israel, in Pennsylvania.