Rabbi Stephen Belsky

Our interim rabbi is Rabbi Stephen Belsky. Rabbi Belsky grew up just a short drive down the coast in Brooklyn, NY, but has spent the last dozen years of his life in Michigan, surrounded by the Great Lakes. A graduate of the Pardes Educators Program and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, he has taught both children and adults at schools, synagogues, and other institutions; and when he isn’t on the road working as an eruv builder or a visiting rabbi in settings as varied as Baltimore, Austin, New Orleans, and Toledo, he is a regular speaker and teacher in Detroit’s Modern Orthodox community. Besides delving into our sources together with students to deepen our understanding of what it means to be Jewish and what it means to be human, he loves language, nature, speculative fiction, and the prophetic poems of doom in Tanakh.  Rabbi Belsky is thrilled to be spending more time with the CJI/Touro community, after having filled in for Rabbi Mandel this past Sukkot.

Rabbi Belsky may be contacted at 401–847–4794 ext. 203 or at Rabbi.CJI@tourosynagogue.org