Marc Rosenstein grew up in Highland Park, IL, at North Shore Congregation Israel. His first visit to Israel was as a high school student in the first exchange of the Eisendrath International Exchange (EIE) program in 1962. He was ordained at HUC-JIR in 1975, and then served as assistant rabbi at Community Synagogue, in Port Washington, NY. Rabbi Rosenstein was a teacher and also a principal at the Solomon Schechter Secondary School in Skokie, IL. He also served as the principal at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Lower Merion, PA.

In 1990, he made aliyah, moving to Moshav Shorashim, a small community in the central Galilee, founded in the early 1980's by a group of young American immigrants. He is presently the director of the Makom ba-Galil, a seminar center at Shorashim, which engages in programming that fosters pluralism and coexistence. Marc is married to Tami (originally from Waukegan, IL), who is a speech clinician working with handicapped infants and children. They have three children; Josh, Ilana, and Lev.

Email correspondence regarding "Galilee Diary" entries should be sent to Marc at hmakom@netvision.net.il.

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