Tanenbaum approached Rabbi Baruch Taub, a prominent alumnus of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore,  who grew up in Toronto, then national director of NCSY in New York, to be the rabbi.
Rabbi Tanenbaum sought out Rabbi Baruch Taub, an influential graduate of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, who had been born in Toronto and was formerly the national director of NCSY in New York, to assume the role as a rabbi.