Rabbi Elie Weissman

Associate Director, North America

Rabbi Elie Weissman comes to JLIC with over twenty years of Jewish communal experience, serving as rabbi of the Young Israel of Plainview and having taught at the Yeshiva of Flatbush and Yeshiva University High School for Girls. After studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion, Rabbi Weissman earned a Bachelors in English literature and a Masters in Bible from Yeshiva University, where he also received his rabbinic ordination. Rabbi Weissman enjoys Jazz music and believes, with all due respect to Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet player of all time.  Rabbi Weissman lives in Plainview with his wife Avital and their five children.