When not rooting for the Mets, Jets and Nets (he likes alliteration…he would also like at least ONE championship some time soon!), Robert is a senior professional for a major Jewish non-profit organization. His love of radio dates back to 1981, where he and Nachum Segal first met as rookie DJ’s on YU’s radio station, WYUR. It was love at first sight (with a radio station, not Nachum). As Program Director in 1984, Robert WOULD HAVE LOVED TO OFFER MARK ZOMICK A SHOW, BUT COULDN’T FIND AN APPROPRIATE SLOT. In 1985 Robert ascended to the role of successor to Nachum as Station Manager of WYUR, and became the play-by-play voice of Yeshiva University Macabees Basketball for two years. (Hey- it’s not the Knicks, but it’ll do).
After graduating YU in 1985, Robert earned his MBA in Marketing while moonlighting at WNBC, WCBS and other local New York radio stations. He was also one of the voices on “Sports Phone”. In 1987, reality set in and he realized that an Orthodox Jew had no future in sports-casting, especially since he was always being asked to work on Shabbos. Unfortunately for him, the NFL and colleges didn’t play their football games on Tuesdays.
Robert now lives in Fair Lawn, NJ with his wife Susie (Rosenfeld). He has two awesome sons, Jason and Joey.
Robert spent the best times of his life at Camp Massad Bet in the beautiful Pocono Mountains’ sleepy town of Dingman’s Ferry, PA. A camp, he notes, that imbued him with his love of Israel and his strong Religious Zionist identification. Maybe that’s why he and Meir Weingarten get along so well. One day, if he grows up, Robert wants to be a baseball player.