Joseph M. Forman 
Rabbi
Joseph M. Forman is the Rabbi of Or Chadash, Flemington, NJ. Born in Cleveland Ohio, and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, Joe received his rabbinic ordination in 1993 from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where a year earlier he …
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Betsy Zalaznick
Religious School Director
Shalom! Or Chadash’s Religious School is a warm, exciting, vibrant and nurturing environment. It is our aim to provide our children with the background necessary to develop a love and enthusiasm for Judaism so that Jewish values might guide our students throughout their lives.
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Jeff Warschauer
Cantor
Jeff Warschauer is a cantor, educator and highly accomplished musician with a sweet, soulful voice and a friendly, engaging presence.
Cantor Warschauer leads exciting participatory services with a creative mix of contemporary and traditional melodies. He teaches kids and adults about all facets of Jewish music, prayer and Torah reading, and leads multi-generational choruses and ensembles that enliven synagogue events, draw in potential new members and strengthen bonds among the membership and with the community at large.
A graduate of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Cantor Warschauer has served congregations in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine and Vermont.
In the Yiddish and klezmer scene, Cantor Jeff Warschauer is internationally renowned as one of the foremost klezmer mandolinists, as an innovator in the development of a klezmer guitar style, as an expressive Yiddish singer and as a skillful and inspirational educator. One half of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, he was a long-time member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and has been featured in concert and on recordings with Itzhak Perlman, Joel Grey and the late Theodore Bikel. He is on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and is a Founding Artistic Director and Senior Artistic Advisor of KlezKanada.
Cantor Warschauer speaks Yiddish, and has researched and collected Yiddish and Hebrew songs and instrumental melodies since the mid-1980s. He received a Bachelor of Music at the New England Conservatory, and has studied Jewish culture, languages, and religion at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative Yeshiva, Oxford University, Columbia University, the University of Haifa and Tufts University. He has received numerous awards in Music, Community Activities, Judaica and Musicology, as well as the Amalgamated Bank Prize in Yiddish, a Massachusetts Folk Arts Fellowship, and the KlezKanada Distinguished Service Award.
Richard F. Steinbrink
Rabbi Emeritus
Or Chadash is blessed with having the continued dedication and involvement of our long-time Rabbi and current Rabbi Emeritus, Rabbi Richard F. Steinbrink.
After serving as spiritual leader for a number of different temples, Rabbi Steinbrink served as Associate Rabbi and then Senior Rabbi at Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia and Elkins Park for 17 years. Throughout that time and beyond, he has been actively involved in a number of local Jewish organizations and hospital chaplaincy programs and has been a frequent teacher of the Union for Reform Judaism’s “Introduction to Judaism” and “Taste of Judaism” classes in the Philadelphia area.
Rabbi Steinbrink joined Or Chadash in 1990 when it was a young, small and fledgling congregation. With his leadership and support, Or Chadash grew both in size of membership and breadth of programs. Read full bio here…