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Matanky was born in Chicago in 1958.
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Leonard Matanky
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Based in Chicago, Illinois, Matanky is currently the immediate past president of the Rabbinical Council of America, pulpit rabbi of Congregation K.I.N.S. and Dean of Ida Crown Jewish Academy. He has written extensively on curriculum issues. In 1981, He received rabbinical ordination and a Masters degree in Religious Education from Hebrew Theological College.
That year, he began teaching Judaic studies at Ida Crown Jewish Academy, a coeducational Modern Orthodox high school in Chicago.
In 1994 he assumed the pulpit of Congregation K.I.N.S. in Chicago"s Rogers Park neighborhood. He was appointed Dean of ICJA in 1996.
In 2013, he succeeded Rabbi Shmuel Goldin as President of the Rabbinical Council of America. He had previously served as Vice-President of the Radio Corporation of America under Goldin.
Rabbi Matanky has served as President of the Chicago Rabbinical Council, and (as of 2014) is on the boards of the Religious Zionists of Chicago and Camp Moshava.
He is also co-Chairman of the Rabbinic Action Committee of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and serves on the rabbinic advisory committees of the YU Torah MiTzion Kollel of Chicago, and World Beni Akiva. Matanky has thirteen grandchildren (as of December 2015).
