Rabbi Jonathan Muskat

Rabbi Jonathan Muskat has taught in various Long Island Yeshiva high schools for over ten years and was the Assistant Principal at YDE High School, a Syrian boys Yeshiva High School in Brooklyn for five years. Rabbi Muskat is very passionate about creating a student-centered classroom where his students are inspired to learn and grow in their love for Torah and Torah values. Rabbi Muskat has been the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Oceanside for the past seventeen years. He was also a Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America. Additionally, Rabbi Muskat is a pastoral health care liaison at South Nassau Community Hospital. He received his semicha, a master’s degree in Medieval Jewish History, and an undergraduate degree in Jewish Studies and Speech and Drama from Yeshiva University. Rabbi Muskat also received a law degree from New York University School of Law and served as a corporate attorney in the New York law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson for four and a half years. He posts a weekly blog in Times of Israel on contemporary Jewish issues. Rabbi Muskat is excited to share his love of Torah with the students of Shulamith High School.