Rabbi

Rabbi Howard Diamond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 1, 1955. He attended Public School, and Hebrew School at Temple Shalom of Philadelphia. His high school years were spent at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, and beginning in 1969 at the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore. he graduated with honors in 1972 and went on to Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore. At the same time, he attended Johns Hopkins University in that city. in addition, he studied at University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

In 1992, he graduated from State University at Stony Brook, Long Island with a degree in comparative studies, encompassing philosophy, biology and religious studies. he received his Rabbinic Ordination from the Orthodox Bet Din of Israel, and Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel in 1993. During his years as a student, he met and married Francine Marks; they currently reside in Woodmere, New York, have been married for 28 years and have seven children (six girls and one boy) ranging in age from 27 - 11 years old.

Rabbi Diamond has had many professional affiliations and has served various temples in Philadelphia and Long island in different capacities. He has been an adult education instructor, Hebrew School teacher, and has personally tutored scores of students through their Bar and Bat Mitzvah. he has served as the Educational Director of Temple Beth El (North Bellmore), Rabbi of Tiffereth Israel Synagogue (Greenport), Chaplain for the Fire Department (Village of Lynbrook) and Principal of Central Hebrew High School (Oceanside).

He has been the Rabbi of Congregation Beth David of Lynbrook since 1998, where he has spearheaded the exciting revitalization and rapid growth in membership of the 82 year-old institution. He re-established the Hebrew School, organized and led the first adult Bat Mitzvah class in the history of the synagogue, and created a number of ongoing children's and teen programs, as well as many new educational, spiritual and cultural special events.

Our Rabbi

for our returning Hebrew School students along with some new faces and families for September. As you can imagine, its very easy to use the summer as a vehicle for planning Holidays, Hebrew School and events for September...but lets not forget, THERE STILL IS THE SUMMER! Services need to take place, minyons need to happen. Many of our congregants have abandoned that spirituality, camaraderie and mitzvah of coming for minyon. All summer we have services on Friday nights at 8:00 PM and Shabbos morning at 9:00 AM. Every Friday we have an Oneg after the services and every Shabbos there is a wonderful Kiddish after services, prepared by Mrs. Recht, as only she could! We need to take more seriously our commitment to Hashem and our community, especially if we expect them to be there for us

See you in Shul. Have a gevaldig summer!