Alumni & Career Placement:
Become a Rabbi

Hebrew College offers inspiring rabbinic education, vibrant community and professional opportunities.

Our graduates currently serve as congregational rabbis in affiliated and independent congregations, Hillel rabbis and executive directors, hospital chaplains and organizational innovators in institutions across the country. Having successfully placed nearly all of our graduates in the rabbinate, Hebrew College is a thriving enterprise in rabbinic education.

Placement Support

At Hebrew College, you are not alone in your search. Our faculty and staff work with studentss and graduates to help them prepare for and find the rabbinic position that is right for each of them.

• Individualized Placement Support: We will provide you with highly individualized support during your job search to enable you to find the right opportunity.
• Job-Search Skills: Our staff, along with other professionals with whom we work, help with drafting resumes and cover letters, preparing for interviews and negotiating contracts.
• Alumni Resources: We continue to provide these job-placement resources to alumni of the rabbinical school.

Placement Partners in the Hebrew College Internship Program

Our students serve as rabbinic and cantorial interns in the Greater Boston area and beyond.

Rabbinical Internship Experiences

Read about recent alumni Rabbi Giulia Fleishman `22 (above) and Rabbi Ryan Lezner `23, who deepened their rabbinical training and connected with community members as part of their rabbinical internship training.

Current Student Internships

Below are some of the synagogues, Hillels, and organizations where our students serve. View the Internship Handbook here.

Congregations

• Beth Israel Congregation, Bath, MN (Reform)
• B’nai Tikvah, Canton, MA (Independent)
• Boston Synagogue, Boston, MA (Independent)
• Congregation Betenu, Amherst, NH (Reform)
• Congregation Beth Israel, Worcester, MA (Conservative)
• Congregation B’nai Tikvah, Canton, MA (Conservative)
• Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, West Newton, MA (Reconstructionist)
• Congregation Nehar Shalom, Jamaica Plain, MA (Pluralistic)
• Congregation Shaaray Tefilla, Glen Falls, NY (Conservative)
• Congregation Shirat Hayam, Swampscott, MA (Conservative)
• Jewish Community of Amherst, Amherst, MA (Reconstructionist)
• Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, Stowe, VT (Independent)
• Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, Tisbury, MA (Reform)
• Ma’yan Tikvah, Wayland, MA (Independent)
• Mishkan Tefillah, Brookline, MA (Conservative)
• Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue, Jamaica Plain, MA (Independent)
• Shir Tikvah, Minneapolis, MN (Reform)
• Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation, Orlando, FL (Conservative)
• Temple Beth Avodah, Newton, MA (Reform)
• Temple Beth David, Westwood, MA (Reform)
• Temple Beth Zion, Brookline, MA (Independent)
• Temple B’nai Abraham, Beverly, MA (Independent)
• Temple Emanuel, Andover, MA (Reform)
• Temple Emanu-El, Providence, RI (Conservative)
• Temple Emmanu-el, Haverill, MA (Reform)
• Temple Emunah, Lexington, MNA (Conservative)
• Temple Israel, Boston, MA (Reform)
• Temple Israel, Greenfield, MA
• Temple Israel, Portsmouth, NH (Consservative)
• Temple Kol Tikvah, Sharon, MA (Independent)
• Temple Reyim, Newton, MA (Conservative)
• Temple Shalom, Medford, MA (Conservative)
• Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland, MA (Reform)
• Temple Shir Tikva, Minneapolis, MN (Reform)
• Temple Sinai, Brookline, MA (Reform)
• Temple Tiferet Shalom, Peabody, MA (Reform)

Hillels

• Boston University Hillel, Boston, MA
• Brandeis University Hillel, Waltham, MA
• Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Northeastern University Hillel, Boston, MA
• Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale/Yale Hillel, New Haven, CT
• Williams College Hillel, Williamstown, MA

Community Organizations

• 18Doors
• 2Life Communities, Brighton, MA
• BASE communities
• Boston-Area Jewish Education Program, Waltham, MA
• Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Temple Beth El, Augusta, ME
• Community Hevrah Kadisha, Lexington, MA
• Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
• Essex County Community Organizations, Lynn, MA
• Fat Torah, Online (Israel based)
• Granite State Organizing Project, Manchester, NH
• Mayyim Hayyim: Living Waters Community Mikvah, Newton, MA
• Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College, Newton, MA
  • OneTable, Online
• Teen Beit Midrash, Hebrew College, Newton, MA

Internship Handbook

>> View the handbook for students and mentors for internship program details.

When I was Keshet’s* intern, I was the person anchoring the justice work. I was primarily working with them on a ballot initiative campaign here in Massachusetts that was aimed at repealing public protection that was enshrined into law for transgender people. We were working with a coalition of different organization and movements trying to maintain the laws that we have now. Keshet is organizing the Jewish community to be involved.

– Mimi Micner, rormer rabbinical student (ordained in 2020) and Campaign Specialist Intern at Keshet, Boston, MA. Keshet, one of Hebrew College’s shared campus partners, is a national grassroots organization with offices in Boston, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area that works for the full equality and inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Jews in Jewish life.

Teaching Experience

Rabbinical students also have the opportunity to hone their teaching and curriculum building skills as instructors in Hebrew College’s young adult community learning programs.

Where Our Alumni Serve

“The jobs that members of our graduating classes are taking truly reflect the diversity of interest which makes Hebrew College such a compelling place. The positions include: a director of pastoral care at an elder care facility; a teen educator; the assistant rabbi for the world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue; the new BASE rabbi for Berkeley, California; a text teacher at a Jewish day school, etc. It is an immensely talented group of graduating students, and they will make a significant mark on the Jewish world in very different ways. Each of them will be bringing the combination of textual knowledge and community-building skills which are core to the Hebrew College program.” — Rabbi Dan Judson, Hebrew College Provost

Humans of Hebrew College

For Those Working in Pulpits

• 24% work in synagogues affiliated with the Reform movement
• 34% work in synagogues affiliated with the Conservative movement
• 32% work in Independent Synagogues
• 10% work in synagogues affiliated with the Reconstructing Judaism movement

Hillel/College Chaplaincy

• • Jordan Braunig `14, Jewish Chaplain, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  • Michaela Brown `24, Associate Chaplain for Jewish (& Interfaith) Life, Olaf College & Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  • Emmanuel Cantor `24, Assistant Campus Rabbi, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, New Haven, CT
  • Misha Clebaner `19, Campus Rabbi, University of Pennsylvania Hillel, Philadelphia, PA
  • Getzel Davis `13, Campus Rabbi, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • Jevin Eagle `19, CEO & University Chaplain, Boston University Hillel, Boston, MA
  • Aaron Fine `09, Executive Director, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Hillel, Amherst, MA
  • Jess Goldberg `20, Chaplain for Jewish Life, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  • Steven Jablow `15, Director of Campus Ministry, Hillel Director, Jewish Chaplain, & University Lecturer, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
  • Emma Kippley-Ogman `10, Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life, Macalester College, Paul, MN
  • Talia Laster `22, Campus Rabbi, Cornell Hillel, Ithaca, NY
  • Bryan Mann `18, Rachlin Director of Jewish Student Life & Assistant Director of the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life & Contemplative Practices, Vassar College , Arlington, NY
  • Stephanie Max `19, Executive Director, Texas HIllel, Austin, TX
  • Sarah Pollack `25, Engagement Rabbi, Columbia/Barnard Hillel, New York, NY
  • Elli Pripas `25, Jewish Chaplain & Hillel Advisor, Emerson College Hillel, Boston, MA
  • Sonia Saltzman `08, Rabbinic Advisor for Graduate Students, Boston University Hillel, Boston, MA
  • Lisa Stella `14, Director of Religious Life & Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Seth Wax `13, Jewish Chaplain, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
  • Moshe Webber `23, Base Rabbi, Metro Chicago Hillel, Chicago, IL
  • Jacob Weiss `24, Rabbi, Northeastern University Hillel, Boston, MA
  • Ilana Zietman `19, Director of Jewish Life, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Jewish Arts

• Adina Allen `14, Co-founder & Creative Director, The Jewish Studio Project, Berkeley, CA
• Adam Lavitt `12, Director of Learning, Jewish Studio Project, Berkeley, CA

Jewish Communal Leadership

• Alana Alpert `14, Executive Director / Rabbi, Detroit Jews for Justice / Congregation T’chiyah, Oak Park, MI
• Elyssa Austerklein `11, Rabbi & Founding Director, Ivrim Jews Without Borders, Sarasota, FL
• Laura Bellows `18, Director of Spiritual Activism & Education, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, Dorchester, MA
• Minna Bromberg `10, Founder & President, Fat Torah, Jerusalem, ISRAEL
• Nate DeGroot `16, Director, The Shalom Center, Philadelphia, PA
• Ayalon Eliach `18, Chief Ideas Officer, Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah, Brooklyn, NY
• Hindy Finman `24, Senior Director of Jewish Life & Director of the Center of Loving Kindness & Civic Engagement, Pittsburgh Jewish Community Center, Pittsburgh, PA
• Sarah Bracha Gershuny `12, Facilitator of Chodesh Circle, com & Wellsprings
• Rachel Kaplan `21, Director of Student Life, Hebrew College, Newton, MA
• Gita Karasov `20, Dean of Admissions, Hebrew College, Newton, MA
• Avi Killip `14, Executive Vice President, Hadar Institute, New York, NY
• Daniel Klein `10, Dean, Hebrew College, Newton, MA
• Margie Klein Ronkin `11, Executive Director, ECCO – Essex County Community Organization / Faith In Action, Lynn, MA
• Elie Lehmann `17, Director of Hadar Boston, Hadar, Boston, Newton Centre, MA
• Allen Lipson `24, Organizer, Essex County Community Organization, Lynn, MA
• SAM Luckey `20, Rabbinic Program & Community Builder, Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont, CA
• Amalia Mark `21, Community Rabbi, GatherDC, Washington, DC
• Lev Meirowitz Nelson `13, Director of Scholarship, Sacred Spaces, Brooklyn, NY
• Jessica Meyer `14, Rosh Tefilla & Artist-in-Residence, Hebrew College, Newton, MA
• Salem Pearce `18, Director of Spirituality, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, Jackson, MS
• Matthew Ponak `20, Co-Founder, Teacher & Somatic Spiritual Guide, Mekorah Institute, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA
• Micah Shapiro `17, Founding Rabbi, Nariya Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, OH
• Becky Silverstein `14, Principal, Horizon Philanthropy, Boston, MA
• Stephen Slater `18, Dean of Rabbinical School, Academy for Jewish Religion California, Santa Ana, CA
• Alyson Solomon `09, Rabbi, Taube Center for Jewish Peoplehood, Oshir Marin Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA
• Avi Strausberg `15, Director of National Learning Initiatives, Hadar Institute, Washington, DC
• Aron Wander `25, Community Organizer, Merrimack Valley Project, Lawrence, MA

Jewish Education

• Deborah Anstandig `25, Educational Director for Engagement, Pardes, Jerusalem, ISRAEL
• Julia Appel `11, Senior Director of Innovation, Clal – The National Jewish Center for Learning & Leadership, New York, NY
• Sara Blumenthal `22, Bar/Bat Mitzvah Coordinator & 6th-7th Grade Teacher, Temple Beth Zion, Brookline, MA
• Elizabeth Bonney-Cohen `18, School Rabbi, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, Overland Park, KS
• Dena Glasgow `21, Director of Jewish Education, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA
• Joel Goldstein `19, Faculty, YASHRUT, Ann Arbor, MI
• Josh Greenberg `23, Jewish Chaplain, Philips Academy, Andover, MA
• Hillel Greene `14, Jewish Studies Faculty, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA
• Genevieve Greinetz `22, Director of Jewish Learning, The Brandeis School of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Justin Held `21, Director of Jewish Living & Learning, Smith Jewish Academy, Louis Park, MN
• Stephanie Kennedy `22, Rabbi Educator, Jewish Gateways, Albany, CA
• Noam Lerman `20, Associate Clergy, LAB/SHUL, New York, NY
• Sara Meirowitz `13, Associate Dean of Jewish Education, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA
• Sarah Noyovitz `20, Education Director & Music Speciaist, Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills, Milton, MA
• Elaine Pollack `08, Educator, Dorshei Tzedek, West Newton, MA
• Heather Renetzky `24, Director of Congregational Engagement, Zion Temple, St. Paul, MN
• Shayna Rhodes `08, Faculty & Director, Beit Midrash, Hebrew College, Newton, MA
• Shani Rosenbaum `21, Faculty, Hebrew College, Newton, MA
• Shira Shazeer `10, Learning Center Teacher, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA
• Ashira Stevens `23, Director of Congregational Learning, Temple Beth David Westwood, Westwood, MA
• Sarah Tasman `12, Director of Congregational Learning, Temple Rodef Shalom, Falls Church, VA
• Rebecca Weinstein `18, Associate Rav Beit Sefer, The Solomon Schechter Day School, Newton, MA
• David Winship `17, Director of Toshba, Jewish Community Day School, Newton, MA

Non-Pulpit Community Rabbis

• Ezra Balser `17, Rav, BASE Loop, Chicago, IL
• Shoshana Friedman `14, Self-Employed, Boston, MA
• Shamarya Gershon `08, Kosher Supervisor/Mashgiach for restaurants, caterers, and grocery markets, New Haven Kosher Vaad (Ladle & Loaf, 357 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT), and Vaad HaKashrus of Fairfield County (Edge of the Woods, 379 Whalley Ave, New Haven), New Haven, CT
• Hayley Goldstein `19, Associate Rabbi, Park Slope Jewish Center, Brooklyn, NY
• Marcie Kamerow `15, Development Associate, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston, MA
• Jessica Lenza `15, Self-employed, Rebel Rabbi, New York, NY
• Margot Meitner `14, Community Rabbi/Psychotherapist/Faculty-Hebrew College, Self-employed/The Meeting Point/Hebrew College, Jamaica Plain, MA
• Jackson Mercer `23, Head Rabbi, Base BSTN, Cambridge, MA
• Sarah Mulhern `17, Rabbi, Silverstein Base Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL
• Frankie Sandmel `22, Rabbi, BASE Bay Area, Oakland, CA
• Karen Silberman `10, Nongregational Rabbi, Self-employed, Sharon, MA
• Danny Stein `23, Rabbi, BASE – UWS under Mem Global, New York, NY
• Jamie Stolper `21, Educator, Rabbi & Life Cycle Officiant, Self-employed, Newton, MA
• Ora Weiss `15, Rabbi, Self-employed, Newton Centre, MA

Pastoral Care

• Joel Baron `14, Interfaith Chaplain, Hebrew SeniorLife, Canton, MA
• Michael Cohen `08, Director of Rabbinical Services & Pastoral Care, The Legacy Senior Communities, Dallas, TX
• Judi Ehrlich `08, Rabbi/Chaplain, NewBridge on the Charles, Hebrew SeniorLife, Dedham, MA
• Giulia Fleishman `22, 2Life Communities, Diretor of Spiritual Care, Brighton, MA
• Janie Hodgetts `09, Ikvotecha Spiritual Director, Hebrew College, Newton, MA
• Rick Kline `15, Spiritual Health Practitioner/Chaplain, Banff Mineral Springs Hospital, Banff, Alberta, CANADA
• Jim Morgan `08, Rabbi/Chaplain, Hebrew SeniorLife, Brookline, MA
• Suzanne Offit `09, Suicide Loss Survivor Support Group, JF&CS, Waltham, MA
• Mona Strick `19, Interfaith Chaplain, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
• Dena Trugman `19, Palliative Care Chaplain, UCLA Health, Santa Monica Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA

Pulpits

• Leora Abelson `17, Rabbi, Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue (Independent), Jamaica Plain, MA
• Elyse Pincus Abrahams `23, Assistant Rabbi, Temple Beth Shalom (Reform), Needham, MA
• Alison Adler `08, Rabbi, Temple B’nai Abraham (Independent), Beverly, MA
• Tiferet Berenbaum `13, Rabbi of Congregational Learning & Programming, Temple Beth Zion (Independent), Brookline, MA
• Aliza Berger `17, Rav Hazzan, Temple Emanuel (Conservative), Newton, MA
• Dan Berman `10, Rabbi, Temple Reyim (Conservative), Newton, MA
• Yosef Berman `10, Rabbi, The New Synagogue Project (Independent), Washington DC
• Sam Blumberg `21, Rabbi, Temple Beth Am (Reform), Framingham, MA
• Josh Breindel `09, Rabbi, Congregation Beth El (Reform), Sudbury, MA
• Phil Bressler `18, Rabbi, Beit Am – Mid-Willamette Valley Jewish Community (Independent), Corvallis, OR
• Leah Carnow `24, Assistant Rabbi, Temple Beth Zion (Independent), Brookline, MA
• Oksana Chapman `09, Rabbi, Temple Emmanuel of Chelsea (Reform/Conservative), Chelsea, MA
• Jacob Chatinover `24, Director of Congregational Learning/Clergy, Congregation Bonai Shalom (Conservative), Boulder, CO
• Eric Cohen `12, Rabbi, Flemington Jewish Community Center (Conservative), Flemington, NJ
• David Cohen-Henriquez `09, Rabbi, Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation (Conservative), Matairie, LA
• Shahar Colt `16, Rabbi, Congregation Ahavas Achim (Unaffiliated), Westfield, MA
• Rogerio Cukierman `11, Rabbi, Bet David Progressive Congregation (Reform), Morningside, Sandton, South Africa
• Tyler Dratch `21, Associate Rabbi, Beth Am Synagogue (Conservative), Baltimore, MD
• Max Edwards `21, Associate Rabbi, Temple B’nai Abraham (Independent), Livingston, NJ
• Ben, Benjamin Einsidler `24, Rabbi, Temple Beth Sholom (Conservative), Framingham, MA
• Rafi Ellenson `25, Assistant Rabbi, Congregation Shir Hadash (Reform), Los Gatos, CA
• Batya Ellinoy `22, Part-Time Associate Rabbi, Rabbinic Vocalist, Temple Sinai Community (Conservative), Marblehead, MA
• David Fainsilber `14, Rabbi, Jewish Community of Greater Stowe (Independent), Stowe, VT
• Eric Feld `23, Associate Rabbi & Director of Lifelong Learning, Ahavath Achim Synagogue (Conservative), Atlanta, GA
• Lisa Feld `23, Rabbi, B’nai Tikvah (Independent), Canton, MA
• David Finkelstein `14, Rabbi, Congregation Or Atid (Conservative), Wayland, MA
• Ari Lev Fornari `14, Rabbi, Kol Tzedek Synagogue (Reconstructionist), Philadelphia, PA
• Micah Friedman `23, Rabbi, Temple Israel (Conservative), Vestal, NY
• Joey Glick `22, Assistant Rabbi, Shir Tikvah Congregation (Reform), Minneapolis, MN
• Matt Goldberg `23, Assistant Rabbi, Beth El Synagogue (Conservative), Louis Park, MN
• Bekah Goldman `16, Rabbi, Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation-Emek Shalom (Reform), Simsbury, CT
• Mónica Gomery `17, Rabbi & Music Director, Kol Tzedek Synagogue (Reconstructionist), Philadelphia, PA
• Naomi Gurt Lind `25, Rabbi, Temple Ahavat Achim (Conservative), Gloucester, MA
• Simcha Halpert-Hanson `25, Rabbi, Temple Israel (Pluralistic), Greenfield, MA
• Eli Herb `16, Rabbi, Congregation Emanu-El (Conservative), Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA
• Idan Irelander `09, Founding Rabbi, Congregation Ahavat Olam (Unaffiliated), North Andover, MA
• Eliana Jacobowitz `10, Senior Rabbi, Temple B’nai Brith (Independent), Somerville, MA
• Suzie Jacobson `15, Rabbi & Director of Congregational Learning, Temple Israel (Reform), Boston, MA
• David Joslin `22, Rabbi, Temple Beth Israel (Reform), Plattsburgh, NY
• Randy Kafka `08, Rabbi, Temple Kol Tikvah (Independent), Sharon, MA
• David Kaplinsky `25, Associate Rabbi, Congregation Agudas Achim (Reconstructionist), San Antonio, TX
• Chaim Koritzinsky `08, Rabbi, Congregation Etz Chayim (Independent), Palo Alto, CA
• Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg `17, Lead Rabbi, Shir Tikvah (Reform), Minneapolis, MN
• Ryan Leszner `23, Assistant Rabbi, Director of Jewish Living & Learning, Congregation Darchei Noam (Reconstructionist), North York, Ontario, CANADA
• Navah Levine `10, Rabbi-in-Residence, The Boston Synagogue (Pluralistic), Boston, MA
• Jessica Lowenthal `19, Rabbi & Education Director, Temple Beth Shalom (Reform), Melrose, MA
• Tamar Magill-Grimm `10, Senior Rabbi, Beth Jacob Congregation (Conservative), Mendota Heights, MN
• Emily Mathis `09, Rabbi, B’nai Torah Metrowest (Reform), Wayland, MA
• Alex Matthews `23, Rabbi, Congregation Ahavas Achim (Independent), Newburyport, MA
• Michael McCloskey `07, Rav-Chazzan, Temple Emeth (Conservative), Chestnut Hill, MA
• Mimi Micner `20, Rabbi, Temple Beth Torah (Conservative), Holliston, MA
• Lee Moore `10, Interim Rabbi, Congregation Ruach haMaqom (Jewish Renewal), Burlington, VT
• Akiva Nelson `25, Rabbi, Bet Am Shalom Synagogue (Reconstructionist), White Plains, NY
• Allison Poirier `19, Rabbi, Temple Aliyah (Conservative), Needham, MA
• Rachel Putterman `20, Rabbi, Temple Etz Chaim (), Franklin, MA
• Ken Richmond `21, Co-Senior Rabbi, Temple Israel (Conservative), Natick, MA
• Scott Roland `13, Rabbi, Congregation Shaarey Tikvah (Conservative), Beachwood, OH
• Daniel Schaefer `18, Rabbi, Congregation Mishkan Israel (Reform), Hamden, CT
• Hal Schevitz `13, Rabbi, Congregation Beth-El Zedeck (Conservative & Reconstructionist), Indianapolis, IN
• Josh Schreiber `23, Rabbi, Congregation Agudath Achim (Conservative), Taunton, MA
• Matthew Schultz `25, Rabbi, Moriah Congregation (Conservative), Haifa, ISRAEL
• Jenna Shaw `23, Associate Rabbi, Sixth and I (Non-denominational), Washington DC
• Philip Sherman `13, Rabbi, Temple Beth Elohim (Reform), Wellesley, MA
• Michael Silbert `12, Rabbi, Temple Beth David (Conservative), Rochester, NY
• Talia Stein `20, Associate Rabbi, Temple Sinai (Reform), Brookline, MA
• Beni Summers `25, Director of Programs and Engagement, Kane Street Synagogue (Conservative), Brooklyn, NY
• Lila Veissid `11, Regional Rabbi – Emek Hefer, Israel Reform Movement (Independent), Jerusalem, ISRAEL
• Becca Weintraub `20, Assistant Rabbi, B’nai Jeshurun (Independent), New York, NY
• Josh Weisman `18, Rabbi, Temple Beth Sholom (Independent), San Leandro, CA
• Yael Werber `22, Associate Rabbi, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (Unaffiliated), New York, NY
• Eliana Willis `24, Assistant Rabbi, Temple Emunah (Conservative), Lexington, MA
• Shuki Zehavi `19, Rabbi, Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center (Conservative), Jerusalem, Israel

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Hebrew College has ordained over 100 hundred rabbis and cantors who are powerfully impacting the Jewish world. Our immersive program is rooted in the understanding that a strong spiritual leader is steeped in tradition, while at the same time engaged in the emergent needs of Jewish communities in the 21^st century. Hire our students as interns or our alumni as leaders for your community.

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Meet Our Alumni

Nobody Can Make It Out there Alone

Rabbi Suzie Schwartz Jacobson`15, rabbi at Temple Israel of Boston, offered this teaching for Hebrew College’s Elul Together 5780 Project.

Jewish Approach to Climate Change

Rabbi Josh Weisman`18 is a Jewish Emergent Network Rabbinic Fellow at Kavana Cooperative in Seattle, WA, where he “is thrilled to be working” because the organizations reflect his approach to Jewish community. Rabbi Weisman recently help organize the 2020 Seattle Jewish Climate Festival around Tu BiShvat with 16 organizations, and 18 events. Prior to rabbinical school, he worked for 12 years in non-profits, mostly as a grass-roots organizer. During that time, he worked for several years as a congregation-based community organizer—where he experienced the power of religious communities to transform the world and transform themselves in the process—and later helped launch a Jewish start-up.

Read more about his work with the Seattle Jewish Climate Festival 

Sweetness in Elul

Jewish chaplain and beekeeper Rabbi Suzanne Offit`09 offered this teaching on cherishing the small moments for Hebrew College’s Elul Together 5780 Project.

In the Field

In this Elul Together video by Rabbi Elisha Herb ’16, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Salem, OR , he takes us into the field, with wind and rain in the background, for a short Torah teaching.

A Chavruta for Jewish Learning

Rabbi Sarah Tasman`12, is the founder and CEO of the Tasman Center for Jewish Creativity which offers in-person and online resources for those seeking meaningful, accessible, and personalized Jewish learning, community classes & gatherings, and private spiritual coaching and rabbinic support. While in rabbinical school, she found herself exploring the questions: “What makes a meaningful Jewish learning experience? How is Jewish learning a spiritual practice?  How can you connect Jewish spirituality, learning, and creative expression? That experience deeply impacted her work as a trans-denominational rabbi, creative spiritual educator, and Jewish entrepreneur. “My work embodies “Jewish creativity,” one of Hebrew College’s core values. ‘Creativity,’ inspired the name of my organization,” she says. Today, she incorporates experiential Jewish learning, Jewish mindfulness, creative expression, and ritual in her work.

Read more about Sara

From The Piano to the Pulpit TO Rosh Tefillah

After a prominent role in Roman Polanski’s acclaimed 2002 Holocaust film ‘The Pianist,’ Jessica Kate Meyer`14 was poised for a screen career. But that star turn ultimately sent her in a very different direction.” She became a rabbi, serving at Romemu in New York City and The Kitchen in San Francisco, CA before returning to Hebrew College in 2023 to become the College’s first Rosh Tefillah and Artist-in-Residence. Watch her creative musical prayer leadership style in this video.

Watch Jessica in action
Read more in this The Boston Globe story

Capacity to Love

Rabbi Philip Sherman`13, rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, MA, offered this teaching for Hebrew College’s Elul Together 5780 Project, asking, “Where can we make space for love and learning in our busy lives?”

Building Connected Communities

Rabbi Phil Bressler`18 is the spiritual leader of Beit Am Jewish Community in Corvallis, OR (in the Mid-Willamette Valley), where he is helping to grow the congregation and, he says, is “inspired by young people engaging with Judaism — particularly those who are active in politics and in social justice work.” Among his many goals for his congregation and its relationship with the community, he hopes to cultivate a new generation of leaders with vision for this place. “Part of that is education, part of that is empowerment….to make Beit Am the best possible version of Jewish community in Corvallis,” he says.

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Finding Judaism

Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum`13 found Judaism nearly a decade after she started practicing. She began observing Shabbat when she was 11 — because she thought it made sense to rest on Saturday and work or shop on Sundays — and she could never understand why her Catholic school teachers told Bible stories out of order. She also developed her own system of kashrut…

After several years leading Temple Har Zion in Mt. Holly, NJ, in the summer of 2019, she will return to the Boston area as Director of Congregational Learning and Programming at Temple Beth Zion (TBZ) in Brookline, MA.

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Music and Chesed

Rabbi David Fainsilber`14, spiritual leader of The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, VT, uses music to bring chesed to his congregation, The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, VT.

The Teshuvah of Missed Connections

Rabbi Gita Karasov`20, Hebrew College Director of Ordination Program Admissions, asks how we can work to mend our missed connections in this teaching for Hebrew College’s Elul Together 5780 Project.

Illuminating Life of Campus

As rabbi and educator at Harvard Hillel, my goal is to regularly interrupt people’s lives with moments of meaning, connection, and liberation. That could mean teaching classes with clever names like Shal-Om and Jew Curious, or counseling students in need. The work is most rewarding, he says, when he helps students “take risks to aid in their own growth and to strengthen the good of the world.

– Rabbi Getzel Davis`13, Rabbi and Educator, Harvard University Hillel.

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Blending clinical and spiritual approaches to work

As a child in Long Island, Margot Meitner`14 planned to be the first Jewish female supreme court justice. The grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Margot wanted to study law so she could help oppressed and marginalized people, indulge her passion for public speaking and her love of learning, and make a difference in the world. But after Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993, young Margot decided on a new career plan: Rabbi.

Read more about Rabbi Meitner

Combining Prayer and Art

Entrepreneur Rabbi Adina Allen`14 and her husband Jeff Kasowitz founded the Jewish Studio Project in 2015 in Berkeley, CA. “Engagement in Jewish text, ritual and tradition in this nonverbal way helps me access ideas and feelings and concepts — internal wisdom that the art-making can tap into,” says, Rabbi Allen. According to Allen, it feels like praying when groups come into the studio to work with paint: “We ask for what we want, need, need to discuss, and then we need to let it go and see what gifts come back.”

Read more  in this The Jewish Telegraphic Agency article

Extending the “Magic” of Hebrew College

When Rabbi Jordan Schuster`18 first came to Hebrew College, he experienced “a unique kind of magic.” At the time, Schuster, then 33, was managing a yoga studio in San Francisco, while taking time off from his doctoral work on Yiddish and Hasidic Literature at Columbia University. He was searching for his path, and while he had contemplated rabbinical school since college, he had doubts about his own ability to support and care for a community as a rabbi, since he had felt alienated from the Jewish community for much of his childhood…

“My relationship to Judaism was mostly solitary up to that point. My prayer-life was entirely individual, be-yahid,” said Schuster, who grew up attending a non-denominational day school and reform and conservative synagogues in Milwaukee. “Growing up, I was an awkward, extremely flamboyant gay kid. I didn’t feel like Jewish communal life had a place for me. Nor did I feel like Jewish communal life did a great job of making me feel like I had a place in it. So I steered away from participating in formal Jewish community…”

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Courage Coach

In addition to being the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego, CA, Rabbi Alyson Solomon`09 is also part of a growing group of independent, private practice rabbis. In addition to her official rabbi duties, Rabbi Solomon offer courage coaching — helping people whether they are “about to climb a mountain, bury a friend, write a novel or have a baby.”

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Second-Career Rabbis

Rabbi Sonia Saltzman`08
Former microfinance executive at ACCION International and rabbi emeritus of Congregation Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, MA.

Rabbi Sonia brings an uncommon level of wisdom, coupled with a refreshing and non-egotistical, down-to-earth approach to her rabbinate. She is very easy to relate to. As a result, she has touched people in so many ways. Rabbi Sonia fills so many of the positive qualities that you think of when you think of a rabbi. She is sincere. She is caring. She practices what she teaches and she believes it.

– Len Davidson, Past President, Temple Ohabei Shalom

Joel Baron“14
Hospice Chaplain, Hebrew SeniorLife, Dedham, MA
Former Publisher, New England Journal of Medicine

What makes Joel special is his genuine and his honest caring of other human beings. Some people can fake it really well. Joel is not faking it. What I felt from his affection and his warmth was real, and I never felt like he was telling me the things I needed to hear. It felt like he was really speaking to me personally and to who I was and what I was going through…His knowledge and spirituality also makes him unique. He never pushed it on us. He offered it. He spoke of it. And he let us take what we needed from it.

– Helen Rodar. Rabbi Baron was a hospice chaplain for her mother.

Rabbi Dan Berman `10
Former attorney and current spiritual leader at Temple Reyim, Newton, MA

Rabbi Berman genuinely cares about every member of our congregation. He is wise, and thoughtful, and seeks to build connections within the Reyim community as well as with the wider Jewish community and beyond. I feel privileged to have him as our rabbi.

– Leslie Sherman, Temple Reyim member

Alumni Music

Listen to “Amar Amar” from the Rabbinical School’s 10th Anniversary CD Galeh. Jessica Kate Meyer (producer, vocals), Micah Shapiro (producer, recording engineer, cajon), Matt Schwartz (electric guitar), Noah Aronson (producer, mixing). Based on music by Moishe Oysher. Text from Talmud Bavli Brachot 64a.

More Than a Decade Young

The Rabbinical School was founded in 2004 and now has over 100 graduates serving communities all over the world. This video was created in 2014, in celebration of the Rabbinical School’s 10th anniversary. Then Rabbinical School Dean, Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, is now President of Hebrew College.