Saturday, September 27, 2008

Rabbis

Many Rabbis are endorsing Barack Obama: I found these on Rabbis4Obama and Jews4Barack. The first one is a fun one, as he is related to Joe Lieberman.

Conservidox
  • Rabbi Ethan Tucker: Stepson of Senator Joseph Lieberman; Co-founder of Mechon Hadar; faculty member at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education; ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel after years of study at Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa; PhD from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Read more.
Conservative
  • Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky: Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was ordained in 1977. Read more.
  • Rabbi Elliot Dorff: Professor of Jewish theology at the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) in California (where he is also Rector). Read more.
  • Rabbi Charles Simon: Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America graduate 1977; was a congregational rabbi; now working for the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs. Read more.
  • Rabbi Menachem Creditor: Spiritual leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, CA. Founder of ShefaNetwork and KeshetRabbis. MA in Jewish Education and rabbinic ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Read more.
Reform
  • Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman: Emeritus Rabbi, Temple Israel of Brookline; Professor of Midrash at New York’s Hebrew Union College. Read more.
  • Rabbi Richard Levy: Executive Director Los Angeles Hillel Council; Lecturer in Rabbinics at HUC-JIR Los Angeles since 1974. Outgoing president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Former Rabbi-in-Residence at the Jerusalem School of HUC-JIR and Scholar-in-Residence at Brandeis Collegiate Institute and Brandeis-Bardin Institute. Was Assistant Rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, Rabbi Temple Beth Am in Yorktown Heights, New York. Read more.
  • Rabbi Steve E. Foster: Senior Rabbi, Congregation Emanuel, oldest Jewish congregation in the state of Colorado, founded in 1874. BS Philosophy from University of Wisconsin, Bachelor of Hebrew Letters, Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters. Ordained 1970 by the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion. Read more.
  • Rabbi Charles A. Kroloff: Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El Westfield, New Jersey. Currently Vice President for Special Projects of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. B.A. magna cum laude Yale University and rabbinic ordination at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. Read more.
  • Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus: Rabbi of B’nai Yehuda Beth Sholom in Homewood, Illinois. B.A. Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington; ordained 1979 by the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. Former Rabbi of Temple B'nai Israel in Kankakee, Illinois; Rabbi of Congregation Beth Sholom in Park Forest, Illinois; Vice-President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Read more.
  • Rabbi Sam Gordon: Rabbi of Congretation Sukkat Shalom, Wilmett, Illinois. Ordained 1980 at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. MBA degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Doctor of Divinity from HUC-JIR, 2005. Read more.
  • Rachel S. Mikva: Member of the Clinical Faculty of the Rabbinical Residencies Program, Hebrew Union College. Read more.
  • Rabbi Steven M. Bob: Rabbi since 1981 of Congregation Etz Chaim, DuPage County, Illinois. Ordained in 1977, after earning his BA at the University of Minnesota and his MA at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. 2002 honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Hebrew Union College. Read more.
Reconstructionist
  • Rabbi David A. Teutsch: Earned his doctorate from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, is past president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Read more.
Renewal
  • Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Founder of The Shalom Center. named by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential American rabbis 2007; named by the Forward one of the "Forward Fifty" as a leader of the Jewish community, 2005; Abraham Joshua Heschel Award by the Jewish Peace Fellowship, 2001. Read more.

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