Rabbi Yitzi Genack
Rabbi Yitzi Genack
genack@gmail.com
Rabbi Yitzi Genack joined the Riverdale Jewish Center rabbinic team in 2010. Since that time, Rabbi Genack served as Rabbinic Intern, Assistant Rabbi, Acting Rabbi and was appointed as Associate Rabbi in 2018. Rabbi Genack earned his BA in mathematics at Yeshiva College, Semicha from RIETS and MA in Medieval Jewish History at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Genack was awarded a Wexner Fellowship from Yeshiva University’s Kollel Elyon. During that four year fellowship, Rabbi Genack pursued intensive Talmudic and Halachic study and advanced pastoral training.
Rabbi Genack is passionate about people and Torah, and he finds great satisfaction in teaching and counseling. In his drashot and shiurim, Rabbi Genack vividly brings to life the values of the Torah and Tradition with thoughtful analysis and sensible application. Rabbi Genack is dedicated to sensitive pastoral care and support. In this way, he uses his training and experience to elevate life’s celebrations and guide people through hardship and loss.
Rabbi Genack is deeply engaged with Riverdale’s diverse families and individuals. He gives weekly shiurim to retirees which creates a vibrant learning environment in our Beit Midrash. Rabbi Genack also cherishes the close relationships he has developed with the youth in our community. He has helped to expand and develop our SNL - Saturday Night Learning and Friday evening Kinder Minyan programs.
Rabbi Genack has introduced innovative programs bringing together people for Torah study through technology and social media. The RJC Q&A WhatsApp group has over 250 active participants and answers thousands of questions a year, and Rabbi Genack has assisted other synagogues in implementing similar programs. Rabbi Genack also hosts a weekly parsha podcast, “Drasha Deconstructed,” which teaches the parsha while giving a behind the scenes look at the process of crafting of a professional drasha.
Rabbi Genack is also an eight-grade Rebbe at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge. In this role he sees the unique opportunity to influence two communities at multiple levels. He also focuses on the intersection between modern middle school education and the community shul dynamic. In the classroom he often gives examples from his real life experience in pastoral care, psak and teaching a diverse community. Rabbi Genack also serves as a member of the executive board of the Rabbinical Council of America.
Shoshana Genack enjoys hosting Shabbat meals, organizing women’s learning opportunities, counseling, supporting and making friends with the wonderful members of the community. Shoshana is an outpatient dietician and diabetes educator at New York Presbyterian. Rabbi Yitzi and Shoshana Genack have five boys who all enjoy being part of the RJC family.
Click here to view the RJC tribute video in honor of Shoshana and Rabbi Yitzi Genack
Saturday, June 25, 2022
26 Sivan 5782
Mazal Tov
Mazal Tov to Faith and Harry Feder on the engagement of their granddaughter Ayelet to Shefftel Miller of Toronto, Canada. Mazal Tov to parents Jeremy and Yonina Feder, and Yisroel and Chana Miller, and their entire families. Special Mazal Tov to great-grandmother Gladys Rothenberg.
Mazal Tov to Rosie and Shalom Gelbtuch upon the birth of their son. Mazal Tov to great-grandparents Dasha and Ben Gelbtuch, Adele Harris and Cynthia Polonetsky, and grandparents Adeena and Daniel Gelbtuch and Carrie and Howie Polonetsky.
Mazal Tov to Aviva and Avi Henoch on the upcoming wedding of their daughter Britt to Noam Weinreich. Mazal Tov to Noam’s parents, Rebecca and Jerry Weinreich.
Mazal Tov to Susan and Victor Mindlin on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson Charlie Tare. Mazal Tov to parents Robin and Josh, brothers Nathaniel and Gabe, grandparents Alex Tare and Miriam and Mayeer Karkowsky, and the entire family.
Mazal Tov to Shira and David Sandel on the Bar Mitzvah of their son Solomon. Mazal Tov to grandparents Janet and Tommy Sandel and Elaine and Morton Zinberg, and to great-grandmother Rona Greenberg.
Mazal Tov to Susan and David Tessel on the birth of a grandson, born to Rebecca and Bradley Goldstoff. Mazal Tov to grandparents Annie and Hymie Goldstoff, and to aunts and uncles Joyce and Nachi Friedman, Hannah and Jake Paul, and Joseph Tessel.
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