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Lyle is entering his
5th year of rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College
- JIR where he is also pursuing his MA
in Religious Education. Before moving to the Upper West Side of
Manhattan, he called Long Island home. He graduated from Hofstra
University in 2004 with a BA in Jewish Studies and a double minor in
Philosophy and Religion.
After college Lyle went to live in Israel
as a counsellor and social activities coordinator on Carmel, a
first-year college program with the Reform Movement at the Leo Baeck
Education Center and University of Haifa. Lyle has traveled to Poland
on the March of the Living, Argentina with the Kesher College
Department, Germany with HUC and Germany Close Up and has led three
Taglit Birthright trips.
In the summer of 2009
he served as a chaplain intern at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
where he completed one unit of a Clinical Pastoral Education program. As
part of Lyle's commitment to interdenominational and interfaith work, he
has participated in Rav Siach, an interdenominational rabbinical student
seminar in Jerusalem. In
the summer of 2010, he traveled to Israel with Auburn Theological
Seminary and the American Jewish Committee on a Protestant/Jewish
seminarian dialogue trip. This year,
Lyle was selected to be part of the CLAL Rabbis Without Borders Student
Fellowship.
Lyle
currently teaches Hebrew High School at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in
NYC and will serve as a Rabbinic Fellow helping to revitalize Shabbat at
Hofstra Hillel. He has spent the last two years as the Reform rabbinic
intern at Columbia/Barnard Hillel.
Lyle
excited to join the Har Tikvah Congregation and can be contacted at
lrothman@huc.edu.
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