Clergy
Rabbi Etan Tokayer
Rabbi
In 2008, Rabbi Tokayer was appointed the fourth Rabbi of Kingsway Jewish Center in the almost nine decades since its founding. A graduate of Yeshiva College, he holds a Master’s degree in Jewish History from YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School.
He is a musmakh of YU/RIETS, and he also received semicha from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg in Yerushalayim. From 2007 to 2014, Rabbi Tokayer also served as the Executive Vice President of Just One Life, an Israeli social service agency which helps expectant mothers in crisis. Previously, he was the Associate Rabbi of Congregation Ramath Orah in Manhattan and also devoted his time to Jewish Education, having taught at the YU High School for Boys (Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy) and at the Torah Academy of Bergen County in New Jersey.
Rabbi Tokayer is a member of the RCA, the nation’s largest most respected Orthodox rabbinic organization and sits on its Executive Committee.
Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Assistant Rabbi
Rabbi Schiffman became the Rabbinic Intern at Kingsway in 2010, and has been the Assistant Rabbi since 2012. After graduating from Yeshiva College, he completed his Semikha at RIETS, and a Master's in Jewish Education from Azrieli Graduate School. He was a teaching fellow in a number of schools including, Yeshivah of Flatbush, MTA, Yeshivat Noam, and Ramaz.
In addition to his role at Kingsway, Rabbi Schiffman completed his doctoral degree in Psychology and is currently beginning a post-doctoral position.
Rabbi Shlomo Wolman
Shamash
Rabbi Wolman studied in Yeshiva Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchok Hutner, Rav Aharon Schecter and Rav Yonosson David. Before moving to Brooklyn, Rabbi Wolman worked as a Shochet and ran a butcher shop in Minneapolis. He was the community’s Baal Kriah and Baal Tefilah and gave classes in Adult Education. Upon his move back to New York Rabbi Wolman entered the Kashrus field and is currently the Mashgiach of Seasons Supermarket in Lawrence. He has been the Shamash in Kingsway for the past twenty years.
R. Milton H. Polin ע״ה
Rabbi Emeritus
Rabbi Polin ע״ה served the Kingsway community from 1974 to 1997. Upon retiring from Kingsway, he made aliyah with his wife, Shainee. In 1997, then Congressman, Charles Schumer, honored Rabbi Polin ע״ה by saying the following about him in front of Congress:
Mr. Speaker, Rabbi Milton H. Polin ע״ה, spiritual leader of
Brooklyn's prestigious Kingsway Jewish Center since 1974 and past
president of the Rabbinical Council of America is one of the foremost
rabbinic personalities in the United States.
At his ordination 43 years ago, his teachers characterized him as ``a
gifted young scholar who will inspire a profound reverence for Torah
Judaism.'' More recently he was paid tribute by the U.S. House of
Representatives for being ``a man highly esteemed and respected by
Jews and Christians whose lives have been touched by numerous good
works and kind deeds of this outstanding spiritual and civic leader.''
His rabbinic leadership transformed his congregation into a
pulsating center of Torah learning and communal activity for hundreds
of young, highly educated, religiously observant families. He
personally taught a variety of classes for men and women of all ages
and backgrounds at his synagogue. In addition, the Greater New York
UJA-Federation recently recognized his congregation's outstanding
outreach program for new American families and awarded it a significant
Continuity Commission grant...
Rabbi Milton H. Polin ע״ה passed away July 2, 2018.
Wed, April 24 2024
16 Nisan 5784
Weekday Schedule April 21st - 26th
Shacharis:
Sunday 7:30/8:30 am
Monday 6:30/7:30 am
Siyum 7:10 am
Mincha:
Sun & Thurs 7:35 pm
Maariv:
Sun & Thurs 7:50 pm
Bedikas Chametz:
Sunday After 8:26 pm
Pesach - פסח / First Days
Erev Yom Tov:
Mon - Shacharis 6:30/7:30 am
Siyyim 7:10 am
Last time toeat Chametz10:14am
Burn Chametz by 11:34am
Candle Lighting 7:22 pm
Mincha & Maariv 7:30 pm
Begin Seder after 8:27 pm
Tues. Shacharis 7:30/9:00 am
Z'man Kriyas Shema 9:29 am
Mincha & Maariv 7:30 pm
Candle Lighting 8:29 pm
Begin Seder after 8:29 pm
Wed Shacharis 7:30/9:00 am
Z'man Kriyas Shema 9:28 am
Mincha 7:30 pm
Maariv 8:25 pm
Yom Tov Ends 8:30 pm
חול המועד - Chol Hamoed
Shacharis;
Thurs & Fri. 6:15/7:15 am
Sunday 7:30/8:30 am
Mincha:
Thursday 7:35 pm
Maariv:
Thursday 7:50 pm
שבת חול המועד - Shabbos Chol Hamoed
Candle Lighting 7:27 pm
Mincha 7:00 pm
Shacharis 7:30/9:00 am
Z'man Kriyas Shema 9:25 am
Mincha 7:15 pm
Maariv 8:28 pm
Shabbos Ends 8:33 pm
פסח - Pesach / Last Days
Sunday:
Candle Lighting 7:29 pm
Mincha&Maariv 7:00 pm
Mon Shacharis 7:30/9:00 am
Z'man Kriyas Shema 9:25 am
Mincha & Maariv 7:30 pm
Candle Lighting 8:35 pm
Tues Shacharis 7:30/9:00 am
Z'man Kriyas Shema 9:24 am
Yizkor will be recited
Mincha 7:30 pm
Maariv 8:31 pm
Yom Tov Ends 8:36 pm
Weekday Schedule April 28th - May 3rd
Shacharis:
Sunday 7:30/8:30 am
Wedsday - Friday 6:30/7:30 am
Mincha:
Wednesday-Thursday 7:40 pm
Maariv:
Wednesday-Thursday 7:55 pm
שבת מברכים פרשת אחרי מות - Shabbos Mevorchim Parshas AchareiMos
Candle Lighting 7:34 pm
Mincha 7:00/7:45 pm
Shacharis 7:30/9:00 am
Teen Minyan 9:30 am
Zman Kriyas Shema 9:21 am
Mincha 7:30 pm
Maariv 8:35 pm
Shabbos Ends 8:40 pm
Yahrzeit
Wednesday 16 Nissan
- Ellen Yager for father, Erich Kracko
Thursday 17 Nissan
- Alisa Ziff for Father, Ernest Daniel
- Marjorie Brown for grandmother, Mina Miriam
Friday 18 Nissan
- Aaron Habshush for father, Harav Shalom Habshush
- Nate Aufrichtig for Father, Joseph Aufrichtig