Biography
Student was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where his parents still live. In his youth, he attended a Conservative Jewish synagogue. He credits his attendance of an Orthodox Jewish high school for his now being "better off". He is an alumnus of Solomon Schechter elementary school and Frisch School, and a baal teshuva. A 1994 graduate of Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, Gil Student is listed in the 2005 alumni directory as a rabbi and a quantitative analyst who works in financial reinsurance and lives in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn, New York and is a member of the Kehilas Marine Park synagogue, led by Rabbi Baruch Pesach Mendelson. He is married and has four children.
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