Rabbi Akiva Block received a B.A. in Jewish Studies, completed a M.A. in Medieval Jewish History at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, and earned his semikha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Block is a graduate of the Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon at RIETS, and serves as the Rabbi at Kehillat Kesher, the community synagogue of Tenafly and Englewood.