Rabbi Dr. Eli Greenwald (d. 2016) was Rabbi Emeritus of Ohel David & Shlomo in Manhattan Beach (Brooklyn, New York). At a young age, when, living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, he was one of the founders of the youth minyan at the local Young Israel. He received his semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and a doctorate in Jewish history and education from Philadelphia’s Dropsie University. He served as a pulpit rabbi in Quebec and Chester, Pennsylvania, before joining Ohel David & Shlomo in 1962, Rabbi Greenwald also served in a number of other roles: as principal of Ezra Academy Junior High School Yeshiva in Brooklyn, as dean of Yeshiva of Manhattan Beach, as both the first vice chairman and a long term member of New York City's Community Board 15, as vice President of the Rabbinical Board of Flatbush, as a member of the Sephardic Rabbinical Council as well as the Jewish chaplain at Jefferson Medical College Hospital in Philadelphia, Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, and Greater New York Council Boy Scout Summer Camps.