Rabbi Moshe Silberschein is a respected Jewish scholar who before coming to Schechter, was a veteran faculty member and lecturer in rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. He received ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1981 with a Master of Hebrew Literature. A year later he made aliyah, and since that time, has worked extensively in the field of Jewish education in both formal and informal frameworks both in Israel and abroad. An expert in Jewish liturgy (siddur and piyut), rabbinic literature and medieval biblical commentaries, Rabbi Silberschein has taught at the Jerusalem University College, the Conservative Yeshiva, Young Judea Year Course, as well as Neve Schechter (today, the Schechter Institute.) He has served as the rabbi of the Jewish community of Japan and as High Holy Day rabbi and cantor for a number of congregations in the U.S. He and his wife Susan are members of Congregation Moreshet Avraham in Jerusalem. They have two children.