Rabbi Ron grew up in the San Fernando Valley and attended California State University Northridge. He worked in banking before changing careers and pursuing his Rabbinic ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. Rabbi Ron interned at Beit T’Shuvah, a Jewish...

Rabbi Dr. J.B. Sacks has been serving Congregation Am HaYam from January, 2012 through Jun3 2024. He stepped in after the death of beloved Rabbi Gerald Hanig, Am HaYam’s founding rabbi. Rabbi Sacks has re-energized our community with new ideas, new programs, and new music. Rabbi Sacks also serves as...

I was born and raised in Massachusetts in a mainly working class Orthodox Jewish suburb of Boston in an apartment three levels above a butcher, next to a fish monger who sold herring from a barrel. We lived in both Dorchester and Roxbury during my childhood. My mother lit candles...