Rabbi Barry Kornblau

Rabbi Barry Kornblau has been rabbi of the Young Israel of Hollis Hills-Windsor Park, in Bayside, Queens, NY since 2003. He feels that it is a special honor to serve a congregation with many Holocaust survivors in its ranks, and which has sent so many of its sons and daughters on aliyah over the years.

Since 2005, he has also served as Director of Committees and Operations at the national offices of the Rabbinical Council of America in Manhattan, NY. “It is,” he says, “a great privilege to work to advance the interests of the rabbinate and klal Yisrael, and to serve my colleagues in the United States, Canada, and beyond. Getting to know so many fine rabbis, young and old alike, is a special pleasure, as well.”

Between receiving a B.A. in music theory and composition from Yale University in 1988 and ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in 2001, he worked for many years on Wall Street as a fixed income analyst, primarily at Goldman Sachs & Co. He also studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut, Israel.

After receiving ordination, he served for two years as rabbi of Congregation Kodimoh, in Springfield, MA. He is proud of having successfully forged a consensus among all of the Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Orthodox rabbis in Springfield to oppose the opening of the local Jewish Community Center on Shabbat.

Rabbi Kornblau is married to Dina, a pediatric neurologist who practices in the Bronx, NY. Together, they are blessed with five children, including a set of twin girls.

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