Joseph Potasnik

Joseph Potasnik (born December 15, 1946) is a rabbi and radio show host. He currently serves as the executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis.[1]

Biography and education

Raised in Lynn, Massachusetts, Potasnik is the only child of two Holocaust survivors.[2] His Jewish parents, mother Anne, and father Herman, who met after World War II and have both died, very rarely spoke to him about the loss of their families and their own grief. Potasnik believes this was to shelter him from the ordeal.[3]

Potasnik graduated from Yeshiva University in 1972 and continued on to receive a master's degree from Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, a division of YU. He then obtained a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.[1]

Potasnik officiated at the wedding of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.[2]

Career

Potasnik is the rabbi emeritus at Congregation Mt. Sinai in Brooklyn Heights, New York.[1]

In December 2019, he published his book based on the one-minute sermons he gives on 1010WINS radio in New York. It's called Just Give Me a Minute, published by The Wordsmithy, LLC (www.justgivemeaminute.net).

Together with Rev. AR Bernard, Potasnik co-hosts The Rev and The Rabbi on WABC Talk Radio 77 in NYC since 2018. Previously he cohosted Religion on the Line show since its inception in 1982.[4] He is the religious commentator for WINS (AM) radio.

He serves as FDNY and Fraternal Order of Police chaplains.[1] Beginning from the first days after September 11, Potasnik has continued to serve as a counselor to many of the surviving family members of firefighters and other first respondents who were killed that day.[3]

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References
  1. Bio: Rabbi Joseph Potasnik Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
  2. The Brooklyn Paper Checkin' in with Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, June 9, 2007
  3. The Published Reporter Understanding The Nature Of Evil That Long Preceded 9/11; Famed Rabbi’s Tale Of Fighting Hatred Through Interfaith Dialogue, January 31, 2020
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-12-17. Retrieved 2014-12-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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