Rabbi Gedalyah Berger received his semikhah (ordination) from Yeshiva University's affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1998.  He graduated in 1994 from Yeshiva College with a B.A. in physics, and studied for three years at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel under the tutelage of HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein shlita. Along with his duties at Fleetwood Synagogue, he serves on the faculty of the Graduate Program for Women in Advanced Talmudic Studies at YU, and as a sho'el u-meshiv (teaching assistant) at RIETS.

Between his ordination and his arrival in Fleetwood, Rabbi Berger was a fellow of RIETS's Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon, an advanced institute for the study of Talmud, Halakhah, and the practical rabbinate. He will soon complete an M.S. at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration of YU.

In his capacity as Fleetwood’s rabbi, Rabbi Berger is also active in the community beyond the shul’s walls.  As a long-time member and leader of Westchester County’s chevra kadisha, he was the editor of its recently re-written procedure manuals.  He was founding co-chairman, and later President, of the Westchester Interreligious Clergy Network, and was a member of Lawrence Hospital Center’s Ethics Committee. Rabbi Berger currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America, and was actively involved in the 2009 re-development of the RCA’s Health Care Proxy and Advance Directive.

Rabbi Berger's wife Miriam holds an MA in classical Jewish History from New York University, taught History and Jewish History for ten years, and now works as a freelance writer and editor.  Rabbi and Mrs. Berger are the proud parents of Shoshana, Racheli, Sheindl, and Baruch Meir.