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Our Professional Leaders
Klei Kodesh (Clergy)
Rabbi Joel Tessler  print |
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RABBI JOEL TESSLER has a B.A. in history from
Yeshiva College, a M.S.W. from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work
and Ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1982.
Rabbi Tessler is a past Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America,
and a member of its Executive Board. He is the Senior Rabbi of Beth Sholom
Congregation in Potomac, Maryland and has been Beth Sholom's Rabbi for twenty–five
years.
Rabbi Tessler co–hosted, with his wife Aviva, a weekly radio
show "Torah Talk With The Tesslers".
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Rabbi Tessler has done extensive work with the elderly,
adolescents and families. He is the author of "The Rabbi's Role as
Caregiver" for the book "The Rabbinate – A Calling
and Vocation".
Rabbi
Joel and Aviva Tessler have been married for 26 years and are the parents
of two children, Roniel, twenty-one, and Saphira, eighteen.
To contact Rabbi Tessler, call the shul at 301.279.7010 x 210 or via email at rebjoel@bethsholom.org
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Rabbi Nissan Antine
Associate Rabbi and Director of Education |
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RABBI NISSAN ANTINE grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated, summa cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University with a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion. Rabbi Antine received his ordination from YCT Rabbinical School in 2006. Before entering rabbinical school, Rabbi Antine studied in various yeshivot in America and Israel and he was a fellow of the Torah Metzion Kollel in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rabbi Antine was also a fellow at CLAL, an interdenominational Jewish think tank, and is very passionate about making the messages of Judaism relevant to Jews across the religious spectrum.
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Rabbi Antine is married to Sarah. They met in a logic class and began their relationship studying the Book of Kings. They are blessed with two beautiful daughters, Johanna and Amollia.
To contact Rabbi Antine, call the shul at 301.279.7010 x 209 or via email at rabbiantine@bethsholom.org |
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