Welcome our Student Ambassador Joe Blumberg!  He will be giving the sermon on Friday night at Shabbat Renewal, and Shabbat Morning in both the J.B. Greenfield Chapel and the Museum Minyan.

Joe Blumberg is a third-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Originally from Lexington, Massachusetts, Joe pursued a career as a classical musician before finding his home in the Jewish world. He has worked as an educator at Brown RISD Hillel and spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in Jerusalem, where he also studied at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and worked with the Jerusalem African Community Center. Joe was a 2022-2023 rabbinical student fellow at Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, where he advised Jewish communities on their climate justice endeavors. He has served as a teacher and prayer leader around the country, most recently as a rabbinic intern at Congregation Shearith Israel in Dallas, Texas and Beth Israel Congregation in Bath, Maine.  Joe holds a B.A. in American History from Yale.