Sandy Olshansky, a student at the Academy for Jewish Religion, has joined Temple Beth Rishon as its new Rabbinic Intern. He decided to pursue rabbinic studies after a successful sales and marketing career dealing with advertising media, consumer electronics and home entertainment. He is motivated by a strong passion for bringing Jewish people closer to Torah and our traditions.
Rabbi Sandy’s duties include teaching b’nei mitzvah students jointly with Rabbi Emert, leading monthly Junior Congregation services on Shabbat morning, conducting the children’s services on the High Holy Days, reading stories and teaching lessons from our living past at Family Services and in the Hebrew School, leading bi-monthly Nosh and Drosh discussions on Shabbat mornings and preaching on occasion on both Friday evenings and Shabbat mornings.
For the past 8 years, Rabbi Sandy has been a member of Pleasantville Community Synagogue, a highly participatory trans-denominational congregation in Westchester County, NY, where he has been a frequent Torah and Haftarah reader, a gabbai and a bar/bat mitzvah rehearsal coach. He has served on the Spiritual Life, High Holiday and B’nei Mitzvah committees. Previously, he served as a trustee and Religious School Chairman at North Shore Synagogue, a large (1,000 families) Reform congregation in Syosset, Long Island. He was educated in Conservative religious schools in Detroit, where he was born, and has been a synagogue member in Detroit and Baltimore.
Rabbi Sandy and his family have lived in the New York metropolitan area for 24 years. He has been married for 36 years to Marilyn, who is an attorney. They have one son, Elliot, a website editor at the New York Daily News. Rabbi Sandy has a BS in Physics from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from the University of Detroit.
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