Megillah, Daf 5

Rabbi Mordechai (Mitchell) Silverstein is a founder and teacher at the Conservative Yeshiva as well as a teacher in Project Oded, both projects of the Fuchsberg Center for Conservative Judaism in Jerusalem. Before making aliyah in 1988 he served as the rabbi of Congregation Shomray Hadath in Elmira, New York. In 2010-11, he served as the sabbatical rabbi at Moriah Congregation in Deerfield, Illinois and in 2009 he was the scholar in residence for the Chicago region of United Synagogue. Rabbi Silverstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he served as president of the Hillel Foundation. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary with an MA and rabbinical ordination and also received Smichah under the auspices of Yeshiva University. He also did advanced studies in Talmud at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Rabbi Silverstein, a native of Philadelphia, grew up in Willingboro, New Jersey. He is married to Shira, a Jerusalem native, who is a geneticist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Together, they have five children and four grandchildren, all of whom live in Israel.
Rabbi Silverstein writes a popular weekly internet Haftarah Commentary for the Conservative Yeshiva.