Rabbi Stein serves as the spiritual leader of Temple Sinai in Cranston.  His rabbinate is defined by his love of learning and teaching, and he strives to create abundant opportunities for lifelong learning, social justice work, and personal connection with Jewish tradition.

Rabbi Stein is the president of the Rhode Island Board of Rabbis and past president of the Cranston Clergy Association.   In 2011, he is participating in the yearlong Leadership Rhode Island program.  In 2008, he was named a Brickner Fellow, a social activism fellowship of the Religious Action Center and the Center for Leadership and Learning.

He serves on the board of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island and is on the steering committee of the Interfaith Poverty Coalition.  He is an active member of RI Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Marriage Equality Rhode Island, and CUAVA: Cranston United Against Violence and Abuse.   He has served as visiting faculty at the URJ Eisner Camp, Kutz Camp and Goldman Union Camp Institute.

Rabbi Stein has a particular interest in interfaith relations and creating opportunities for Catholic-Jewish dialogue and other interreligious programming.  In 2007, he participated in a dialogue at the Vatican organized by the Interreligious Information Center.

Rabbi Stein earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, with a major in Human Service Studies.  He received a Master of Arts in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York.  As a rabbinic student, he studied in both Jerusalem and New York, and received prizes in Hebrew studies and Jewish education.  He served as President of the Rabbinic Student Association.  Rabbi Stein was ordained at HUC-JIR in 1999.  In 2010, he completed the Kellogg Jewish Leaders Program at Northwestern Universty.

Rabbi Stein previously served at Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh, PA.  In addition, he was a rabbinic intern at congregations in Teaneck and New Brunswick, NJ and at the Hillels of the University of Hartford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rabbi Stein was born and raised in New York, and is married to Amy, a native of Framingham, MA.  They are the proud parents of Eliana and Ari, and they live in Warwick.  He loves playing tennis, following the Red Sox, and playing and listening to music of all kinds.