Haskel Lookstein

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein (born March 21, 1932) is an American Modern Orthodox Rabbi who serves as the Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Lookstein served as the Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun from 1958 through 2015 and as the principal of the Ramaz School from 1966 through 2015.

Lookstein started first grade at the Ramaz School in 1937, the year it was established by his father, Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, who was then senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. The school was named in honor of Joseph Lookstein's grandfather-in-law and predecessor in the pulpit, Rabbi Moses Zevulun Margolies.

As a child in the 1940s and 1950s, Lookstein would maintain a "shul scorecard," tracking the weather, the subject of his father's sermon, the details of any special occasions and the number of congregants in attendance, which hovered in the 200s, depending on the subject of the sermon.

He married the former Audrey Katz on June 21, 1959.

Lookstein received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and took a master's degree at Yeshiva University. After receiving his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1958, he was offered pulpits in Detroit and at the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst, New York. He had also been offered a position as assistant rabbi serving under his father, Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, a choice that he was warned against. In the end he decided for his home congregation, and was installed as assistant rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, serving under his father, on June 14, 1958.

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