A veteran of over 30 years in Rabbinic and Outreach work, Rabbi Eli Stern is the senior member of the LINK team. A native of Manhattan, Rabbi Stern began his Yeshiva learning after graduating with a degree in Political Science from Hunter College of CUNY. After two years in Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem, he studied for seven years at the Yeshiva of Staten Island, under Rabbi Reuven Feinstein. He has held outreach and/or pulpit positions in Buffalo, Richmond and Dayton before coming to LA in 1996 to become Ashreinu’s pioneering campus Rabbi (JAM). He laid the ground work for much of LINK’s outreach mission while serving as Outreach Director and Associate Rabbi of the Westwood Kehilla from 1997-2002.