Rabbi Ed Elkin

Rabbi Ed Elkin became the rabbi at the Narayever in 2000, replacing Chezi Zionce. Rabbi Elkin was born in Long Beach, Long Island New York in 1962 and was educated at Princeton in Religion (1984) and in Rabbinical Studies at the Hebrew Union College. He previously held the position of Assistant Rabbi at the Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal for three years. He was also a teacher of Jewish studies at Bialik High School for three years and a part-time rabbi at Congregation Hamelech in Kingston, Ontario. In 1996, he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to work for the North Carolina Hillel Foundation as the Executive Director of Jewish University Studies. Rabbi Ed Elkin is married to Linda Lipsky, who is a professor of literature and a Yiddish poet.

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