Born in Kusnice, Czechoslovakia, Rabbi Eisner was a direct descendant of two of that country's leading rabbinical figures and religious philosophers. Both were ranking Talmudic scholars who wrote many books still used today.

    Yom Tov Lipman Heller (1579-1654) was chief Rabbi of Prague and Cracow. His most important work, "Tosefot Yomtov" has become a permanent part of Mishnah Commentary. Ezekial Landau (1713-1793) was Chief Rabbi of Prague and Dean of the Rabbinical Seminary. His best known work, "Noda Beyehudah" is a classic in the library of Responsa literature.

    Rabbi Eisner was ordained in 1938 at the Yeshiva Horomah in Dunaserdohel, Czechoslovakia.  The following year the Nazis overran the country and from 1942 to 1945, Rabbi Eisner was imprisoned in a number of concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz.

    Circumstance made May 5th a significant date in the life of Rabbi Eisner, On that date in 1945 he won his freedom from captivity. In 1947, on May 5, he first set foot on American soil. He took additional rabbinical training and was again ordained by Mesitvah Tifereth, Jerusalem Seminary.  On May 5, 1949 he arrived in Ellenville to assume his responsibilities as Rabbi of Congregation Ezrath Israel.  His deep understanding and inspirational teaching of traditional Judaism have won him wide respect throughout the area, among laymen as well as other rabbis and religious leaders.  Under his leadership, a beautiful new synagogue housing a state-of-the-art mikvah was built in 1972.

    Rabbi Eisner served as President of the Rabbinical Council of Sullivan and Ulster Counties and was a distinguished member of the Rabbinical Council of America, its executive commitee and the Council's Israel Commission and the Rabbinical Alliance of America.  He has been honored with testimonials by the synagogue, Jewish National Fund, UJA, Machon Chana, Kollel L'Torah V'horoya, and the Hebrew Day School of Sulllivan, Ulster and Orange Counties.