Rabbi Meir Goldberg
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Rabbi Meir
Goldberg is the Director of the Maimonides Leaders Fellowship
Program at Rutgers University, the state college of New Jersey.
Together with his partner at Rutgers, Rabbi Yehoshua Lewis, they run a
Jewish outreach program on campus. Rabbi Goldberg has previously been
involved in outreach efforts in Margate, and Twin Rivers, NJ. Rabbi Goldberg was born and raised in Far Rockaway, NY and studied in Yeshiva Beth Moshe of Scranton, PA, Yeshiva Yagdil Torah in Israel and the Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, NJ. In
Lakewood he was a member of their advanced Kollel program for four
years. Rabbi Goldberg enjoys hanging out with Jewish college students,
and discussing Torah, football, and urban culture, with said students.
He and his wife Estie (nee Schreiber) live in Lakewood, NJ together
with their three rambunctious children, Akiva, Yitzie, and Tzvi Hirsch.
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