Rabbi David H. Chanofsky grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the Great Depression. The founding rabbi of the Monsey Jewish Center, he is an ordained orthodox rabbi w...ver maisRabbi David H. Chanofsky grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the Great Depression. The founding rabbi of the Monsey Jewish Center, he is an ordained orthodox rabbi who was graduated from the Talmudical Academy and Yeshiva University. He held pulpits in Bennington, Vermont; Watertown, New York; and Riverhead, Long Island, before arriving in Monsey, New York, in 1966. He and his wife, Leah, have two children, Dona and Jordan, and seven grandchildren.ver menos