Holy Blossom Temple Welcomes Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism

Friday, March 28, 6:00 pm

We are honored to welcome and host Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, to Holy Blossom Temple. Rabbi Jacobs will give the Kabbalat Shabbat drash as part of our Friday night tefilla.

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Rabbi Rick Jacobs (he/him) is president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the most powerful force in North American Jewish life. The URJ leads the largest and most diverse Jewish movement in North America, reaching more than 2 million people through 825 congregations, 14 overnight camps, the Reform Teen Youth Movement NFTY, and the Religious Action Center in Washington DC. For more than 150 years, the URJ has been at the forefront in promoting an open, progressive Judaism.

Rabbi Jacobs spent 20 years as a visionary spiritual leader at Westchester Reform Temple (WRT) in Scarsdale, New York. Before that, during his tenure as the rabbi of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, he created the first homeless shelter in a New York City synagogue.

He’s a tireless advocate for an Israel that is secure, Jewish, democratic, and pluralistic, with a vibrant Reform Jewish community. Rabbi Jacobs has studied for two decades at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute, where he is a senior rabbinic fellow.

Rabbi Jacobs is regularly featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, Ha’aretz, The Forward, NPR, and CNN, among others.