The Roslyn Synagogue has a tradition of participating in the education of the next generation of modern orthodox rabbis. The Roslyn Synagogue and Rabbi Block annually host a rabbinical intern. The rabbinical intern, at regular intervals, provides sermons and educational activities to the Roslyn Synagogue congregation, while getting real life rabbinical experience.

 

 Our current rabbinic intern:  Michael Goon

Michael Goon is currently training for the rabbinate at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University. From 2009-2010, Michael was the rabbinic intern for Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Prior to the pulpit, he studied Political Science and Arabic at Yeshiva College, writing his undergraduate thesis on counter-insurgency warfare. Overseas, Michael studied at Yeshivat Shaalvim and Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel, and at the Yeshiva College Summer French Language Institute in France. Communally, Michael has organized youth programming as captain of the Friday Night Lights/NCSY youth group in Plainview, Long Island, introduced teenagers to Talmud as an advisor on NCSY Kollel in Israel, and, as part of the specialty and educational staff at Camp Simcha and Camp Ruach HaChaim, aided children facing special needs. He also interned for Senator Charles E. Schumer. Long before any of those experiences, he received his most important lessons from his parents who reside in Scarsdale, New York.