Fifth Avenue Synagogue
5 East 62nd Street
New York, NY 10065
Phone : 212.838.2122
FAX : 212.319.6119

Contact the Synagogue

Please feel free to contact the synagogue with specific questions and concerns. The office telephone number is 212 838 2122 or email the individual staff member by clicking on the emails below
 
Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier - Rabbi
rabbi@5as.org
Rabbi Yaakov Y. Kermaier, spiritual leader of Fifth Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, studied at Yeshivat Heichal Hatorah in Jerusalem and later at Yeshiva University, where he received semicha and an M.A. in Medieval Jewish History.  [more...]

Rabbi Sol Roth - Rabbi Emeritus
Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth received a B.A. from Yeshiva College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.  [more...]

Sheila Montgomery - Office Manager
sheila@5as.org


Yisroel Halpert - Ritual Director

Cantor Joseph Malovany - Cantor
Joseph Malovany possesses a brilliant spinto tenor voice, described by the London Guardian as "most powerful, beautiful and expressive spinto technique...sturdy and heroic" and by the Swedish newspaper Goteborgs Posten as "Judaism's Jussi Bjorling".   [more...]

Paulette Stein-Meyer - Director, Creative Playschool
paulette@5as.org

Paulette is the director of our own Creative Playschool at Fifth Avenue Synagogue. For the past fifteen years, she has led our school with warmth, wisdom, and talent. She has taken the fifth floor of the Synagogue and turned it into an astonishing children’s wonderland.


Alan Stein - Rabbinic Intern
alan.stein@optonline.net
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Maggie Moronta - Bookkeeper
maggie@5as.org
 

 


Rivkah Halpert - Junior Congregation
Rivkah Halpert organizes and co-ordinates our children's services every Shabbat and Yom Tov.

Judy Geldzahler - Religious School
 

Our Officers
Mr. Ira Leon Rennert
Chairman

Mr. J. Ezra Merkin
President

Mr. Jerome Balsam
Vice President

Mr. Jacques Blinbaum
Vice President

Walter J. Molofsky, M.D.
Vice President

Mr. Laurence Rabinowitz
Vice President

Mr. Mitchell Davidson
Secretary

Mr. Marc Schwartzberg
Treasurer