Rabbi Matt Carl is the associate rabbi of Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn, New York, and is the campus rabbi at Hunter College in Manhattan. An alumnus of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps, Rabbi Carl has integrated service and justice concerns with other traditional aspects of the rabbinate. Originally from Long Beach, California, Matt has studied in settings ranging from a Reform Kollel to a Chasidic Yeshiva. A student of Jewish mysticism, his graduate thesis was entitled "Sex and Breathing as Forms of Hasidic Meditation."