User:Abe M Shainberg

Abe Michael Shainberg (b.1953) is a lawyer, marketer, writer, filmmaker & art dealer. Abe grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan where his parents, Nathan & Rachel (nee Schwartzman) immigrated to from Warsaw, Poland. They met in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada after WW11 and moved to New York when Nathan was hired as the Rabbi of the First Warshauer Congregation on Rivington Street. He attended Rabbi Jacob Joseph School on Henry Street, then the biggest Yeshiva in America and graduated high school, Mesivta and finally receiving rabbinic ordination, Doctor of Divinity in 1976. After graduating from Brooklyn College (CUNY) with a degree in Political Science and English Literature, he studied law at St. John's University in Queens. He received his juris doctor in 1977 and became a member of the bar in 1978. Throughout school, Abe earned money as a joke writer for comedians he met at comedy clubs and in the Catskills. This comedy writing led to scripts for television and Abe sold several scripts, both comedy and drama, to various Network shows. After practicing law for several years, handling bankruptcy and intellectual property matters, Abe joined the Diamond Dealers Club as their Executive Director.