Rabbi Emeritus
Rabbi Richard Plavin, Emeritus
Rabbi Richard Plavin served Beth Sholom B’nai Israel from 1979 until his retirement in 2016.
He is now Rabbi Emeritus at Beth Sholom B’nai Israel. Rabbi Plavin is passionate about transmitting the beauty of Jewish living to all Jews. To this end, he promotes Jewish education as a lifelong pursuit and makes his Torah lessons applicable to life today. His love for Israel is reflected in the fourteen congregational trips to Israel he and his wife Lisa have organized.
Rabbi Plavin is the director of Embracing Judaism, an introduction to Judaism program that serves the Conservative congregations of the Greater Hartford Area. More information is available at ibJewish.org. Since 2019, he has served as a police chaplain for the Hartford police department.
Raised in the Conservative Movement, Rabbi Plavin participated in USY Israel Pilgrimage in 1964 and served in leadership positions in U.S.Y. He holds a bachelor’s degree (1968) from Columbia University, as well as a doctorate in education (1976) from that institution, and received a master’s degree (1971) and ordination (1973) from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Rabbi Plavin earned a certificate of completion from the Rabbinic Management Institute at the American Jewish University in 2012.
Rabbi Plavin is married to Lisa Schnitzer Plavin and they have three daughters and seven grandchildren:
Aviva Lebson (Cory), and Eliana, Talya and Nava
Ariel Dubrowin (Shlomo) and Rafi Ilana Bernstein (Steven) and Yeshaiah, Moshe and Ezra
Contact Rabbi Plavin:
Phone: 860-573-4503
E-mail: riplavin@gmail.com
Fri, July 11 2025
15 Tammuz 5785
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