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Rabbi Marc Gellman is the senior rabbi of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, New York, where he has served since 1981. Gellman was the first rabbi appointed to the distribution committee of the UJA Federation and he was chairman of the UJA rabbinical advisory committee. He is founding chairman of the Long Island Rabbinical Advisory Council, and is the recipient of the Tzedaka Award from the UJA Federation, as well as the Rabbinical Leadership Award from the Council of Jewish Federations. Gellman is the president of the New York Board of Rabbis and is the recipient of its Moshowitz award for rabbinical excellence. Gellman received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin with a major in Hebrew and Semitic studies in 1969 and completed his studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1971. He was ordained in 1972 and was awarded the senior homiletics prize. Gellman received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University in 1981. Together with The Reverend Monsignor Thomas J. Hartman, Gellman writes the syndicated column ?God Squad? for Tribune Media Services. They also host a daily, half-hour television talk show of the same name in New York. Hartman and Gellman have authored four books together. Where Does God Live? Questions and Answers for Parents and Children won the 1991 Christopher Award. How Do You Spell God? Answers to the Big Questions from Around the World (with a forward by the Dalai Lama) was made into an HBO animated special and won the George Foster Peabody Award. Lost and Found was published in 1999, and Religion for Dummies in 2002. Hartman and Gellman were recognized as Newsday's Long Islanders of the Century in the category of Leaders and Activists.

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