Our Rabbi
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B'nai Shalom of Olney welcomed Rabbi Ari Sunshine to our bimah as of November 15, 2006.
Rabbi Ari Sunshine grew up in Potomac, Maryland, where he attended the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School from kindergarten through 12th grade. After graduating high school, he attended Brandeis University where he received his B.A., magna cum laude, in Politics in 1994. After Rabbi Sunshine graduated, he served 3 years at Temple Israel in Sharon, Massachusetts as their Youth Director and Senior United Synagogue Youth Advisor. In 1997 he decided to attend the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. While the Rabbi attended the Seminary, he also served as a Rabbinic Intern for Beth El Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland, and for The American University in Washington, D.C. Rabbi Sunshine has extensive experience working at Camp Ramah in Ojai, California. He staffed United Synagogue Youth on Wheels during the summer of 1995 and was a group leader for United Synagogue Youth Pilgrimages to Israel and Eastern Europe. He received his MA and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in the spring of 2002. From July 2002 - November 2006, he was the Associate Rabbi of Temple Israel. Rabbi Sunshine currently serves on the board of Mecklenburg Ministries and the National Youth Commission of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Rabbi Sunshine and his wife, Jennifer, have two children, Jonah and Elana.