sentences:  He also earned a master's degree in Jewish history from Columbia University.He was vice president of the National Council of Synagogues; president of the West Essex Clergy Association; president of the MetroWest Board of Rabbis and of the Rabbinical Assembly’s New Jersey Region; president of the New Jersey Coalition of Religious Leaders; and served as a member of the National Rabbinic Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal.From 1993 to 1995 he was president of the International Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement.