Rabbi Joel E. Soffin served as the rabbi of Temple Shalom in Succasunna, NJ, for twenty seven years until his retirement in 2006. He founded the Adult Mitzvah Corps of the URJ and the teen Bonim Banim building projects, as well as the Million Quarter Project to feed Ethiopian children, micro-loans in Mexico and Israel, and other projects in Rwanda, Cambodia, and Ukraine. He is the founding president of Jewish Helping Hands.