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Progress Avenue
Munster, Indiana 46321
Our Rabbi
Rabbi Kramer is proud to serve as the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel. Rabbi Kramer holds a Master’s Degree in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Graduate School of theJewish Theological Seminary and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbinical School where he was awarded the Isaac H. Wolfson Memorial Award for Excellence in Scholarship, the Rabbi Max Gelb Memorial Prize in Talmud, as well as the Professor Louis Ginzberg Prize in Talmud.
Prior to rabbinical school, Rabbi Kramer earned a BA in English Literature and ran his own internet design company that helped pioneer the development of multi-media business collateral.
Rabbi Kramer’s greatest joy is his family – his wife Lori, who holds an MA in Jewish Education from JTS and is the former Education Director at Congregation Habonim in Manhattan, and their son Zalman.
Rabbi Kramer brings to CBI a deep love of Torah rooted in intellectual and spiritual integrity, and a desire help each and every Jewish man and woman find a way to become more meaningfully engaged with their Judaism.