2007 – 2018: Rabbi Jack Kramer
2006 – 2007: Rabbi Steven Kirschner
1997 – 2006: Rabbi William Kraus
1994: Rabbi Sheri Berger
1976 – 1993: Rabbi Aaron Decter
1967 – 1976: Rabbi David P. Prince
1967 – CKI became affiliated with the United Synagogue of America (later called the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism).
1955 – 1966: Rabbi H. Hillel Horowitz
1954 – 1955: Rabbi Goldberg
1952 – 1954: Rabbi Herbert H. Kumin
1950: Rabbi Naphtali Rubinger
1947: Rabbi Hillel Hochberg
1943 – 1945: Rabbi M. Benjamin Sillman (CKI’s first full-time Rabbi)
Rabbi Wylen was at CKI from September of 2018 through High Holiday services 2025.
Rabbi Wylen is a published author, combining his love of writing with his love of sharing Jewish teachings. His first book, Settings of Silver, has been for many years the most popular college introduction to Judaism, and is also used in many conversion and adult education classes. Rabbi Wylen also wrote a textbook for the Reform movement on the Jewish holidays – The Book of the Jewish Year. His popular work The Jews in the Time of Jesus generates an understanding of the founding years of both Christianity and Judaism. He has also written The Seventy Faces of Torah, Gossip: The Power of the Word, and his latest book, You Should Know This: A Rabbi Explains Christianity to Jews.
Cantor Eddie Roffman
Cantor Roffman was at CKI from 2009 – 2026.
He served as previously served as the Cantor at Congregation Ohev Shalom in Colonia, NJ, and at Congregation B’nai Israel in Basking Ridge, NJ, before coming to CKI.
Cantor Roffman loves teaching prayer, song, chant, and the myriad facets of our Jewish tradition to adults and children.
