At The Long Island Torah Network, we are proud to have a wonderful staff that is not only highly qualified and educated, but also passionately dedicated to sharing their knowledge and love of Torah with others.

Rabbi Mendel Becker
Director

Rabbi Becker founded the Long Island Torah Network in 2012 with a passion and a desire to share
the beauty of our Jewish heritage with his fellow Jews living in Long Island. Rabbi Becker’s earliest
inspiration to pursue a career in Jewish education and leadership came in Tucson, Arizona, where his
father serves as Rabbi of a diverse congregation. His parents’ selfless dedication to all members of
the Tucson Jewish community, regardless of background or level of observance gave Rabbi Becker his
first introduction to the joy of teaching Torah and sharing our traditions with others. Rabbi Becker’s
education continued at schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Jerusalem, Israel, culminating in his
receiving Ordination from the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens, NY. Rabbi Becker’s teaching
experience includes delivering lectures and teaching classes at his father’s synagogue and its educational
affiliate, the Southwest Torah Institute. He has also developed and coordinated the first annual summer
intensive study program (SPIRIT) for the Tucson Jewish community. While a graduate rabbinical
student at RSA, Rabbi Becker served as a teacher’s assistant and mentor to younger students.
Rabbi Becker’s introduction to Long Island began eleven years ago when he served as a High Holidays
cantor in Smithtown and, more recently, for the Young Israel of East Northport. His dynamic teaching
style and unique talent as a public speaker, combined with his warmth, sensitivity and understanding
of the individual serve to make Rabbi Becker an outstanding educator. Rabbi Becker currently resides
in Queens where his wife, Chumie, works as a speech language pathologist in the NYC Department of
Education.                      
  Contact Rabbi Becker here.

Rabbi Elazar Grossman
Director
A native of Brooklyn, NY, Rabbi Elazar Grossman attended the Rabbinical Seminary of America - Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Queens from 1995 - 2011. His mentors at the Rabbinical Seminary included the renowned Rabbi A.H. Leibowitz (c.1918 - 2008), as well as Rabbi Leibowitz's current successors, Rabbis Dovid Harris and Akiva Grunblatt. 
In 2005, Rabbi Grossman married Elisheva Gottesman, also of Brooklyn; the couple settled near the Yeshiva in Kew Gardens Hills. After receiving Rabbinic ordination in May of 2011, Rabbi Grossman began work on a biography of his late Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi A.H. Leibowitz, scheduled for publication in 2017. 
"My teachers impressed upon me that Torah study begins as an intellectual process," notes Rabbi Grossman "but is the key to unlocking your potential in every area. Yeshiva afforded me the opportunity to develop my personality in a variety of ways." It also broadened his horizons: "Before I came to Chofetz Chaim," he recalls, "the last time I had boarded a plane was in fifth grade, to attend a cousin's Bar Mitzvah in L.A. As part of the Yeshiva network, I had the chance to study and teach in cities from San Diego to Fort Worth to Miami. The hands-on experience reinforced the message I learned from my teachers: Torah speaks to the deepest part of who we are as humans and as Jews - and enables you to connect to any Jew, anywhere."
In July 2015, the Grossman family moved to Huntington, Long Island, where Rabbi Grossman continues to pursue his mission of bringing the joy of in-depth Torah study to the broader Jewish community.

    Contact Rabbi Grossman here.