The Jewish Theological Seminary
Learn About Our Graduates
A look at what some of the graduates from The Rabbinical School are up to following their ordination. The descriptions below testify to the diversity of career paths that JTS graduates pursue.
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Rabbi Michael FelMichael Fel serves as the assistant rabbi at Temple Emunah in Lexington, Massachusetts. In addition to teaching and leading the congregation, Rabbi Fel teaches at a local retirement community. He also guides over 450 individuals and organizations in Torah via Twitter at TheTweetedTorah. |
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Rabbi Rachel IsaacsRabbi Isaacs currently serves as the spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Maine. She also teaches Hebrew and Jewish Theology as part of the Jewish Studies faculty at Colby College, where she is advisor to the campus Hillel.
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Rabbi Jesse OlitzkyRabbi Olitzky serves as the assistant rabbi at the Jacksonville Jewish Center in Jacksonville, Florida. He has the opportunity to participate in many aspects of Jewish life with this congregation, from celebrating Shabbat with the preschoolers to bringing God, Judaism, strength, and hope to congregants that he visits in the hospital. Working in the congregation means that he rarely sits behind a desk, is always active and moving, and can be involved in so much. No two days are the same, and he wakes up every morning feeling humbled and blessed that he serves the community and God as a rabbi.
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Rabbi Joshua RabinJoshua Rabin graduated from The Jewish Theological Seminary with rabbinic ordination and an MA in Jewish Education from the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. He is currently in the rabbi-in-residence at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County and High School of Long Island, a K–12 day school with approximately 500 students. |
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Rabbi David SaigerDavid Saiger is the assistant rabbi at Temple Sholom in Greenwich, Connecticut. He works with congregants of all ages. from preschoolers to retirees, from the religious school to the adult education program. Greenwich is a growing Jewish community with many who are eager to study Torah and live Jewishly, and it's wonderful to be in a beautiful suburb while having easy access to the city—and to JTS—and all that they have to offer.
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Rabbi Yonatan WarrenFollowing graduation, Rabbi Warren accepted a commission to the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy. For his first tour of duty, he will be serving the 3rd Marine Logistics Group and the Jewish Community of Okinawa.
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Rabbi Philip WeintraubToday Rabbi Weintraub serves Congregation Agudas Israel in Newburgh, New York. He enjoys the challenges of serving a small community as the sole clergy leader and becoming a part of people's daily lives . . . teaching, giving sermons, reading Torah, leading davening. He does everything, yet still finds time for his family and the broader community. He is creating relationships with local ministers, rabbis, and imams while also pursuing his second unit of CPE. Working at a semi-local hospital, he has found his pulpit life enriched and his pastoral, personal, and professional skills greatly improved. |
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Rabbi Deborah ZukerDeborah Zuker is the Rabbi of Temple Ner Tamid in beautiful Peabody, Massachusetts, on the North Shore of Boston. Temple Ner Tamid is a full-service, USCJ–affiliated synagogue with 230 member units. Ner Tamid is in an exciting phase of transition and growth, looking to meet the spiritual and communal needs of unaffilliated Jewish families and singles in the Peabody area. Rabbi Zuker has been warmly welcomed into the community, which is thrilled with the new initiatives and ideas she has already brought in her short tenure there.
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