Rabbi Adam Baldachin serves as the Rabbi of Shaarei Tikvah, a Conservative Congregation in Scarsdale NY. He is a member of the executive committee of the Westchester Board of Rabbis and the Executive committee of Masorti Olami. Previously rabbi of Montebello Jewish Center in Rockland County, he founded the Rockland Clergy for Social Justice, to advocate for equitable education for East Ramapo public school students. A native of New Providence, NJ, Rabbi Baldachin received his B.A. from the Joint Program of Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary and earned his Rabbinical Degree at the Seminary, where he received the prestigious Gladstein Fellowship in Entrepreneurial Rabbinic Leadership. He resides in Scarsdale with his wife, Maital Friedman, and their three children, Shalev (7), Navit (5), and Lior (2).