Rabbinics

Rabbi Glenn Jacob is one of the few Jews who was born and raised in Orlando, FL before Disney World came to town. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in philosophy and a Masters Degree in Hebrew and ordination from Hebrew Union College (HUC) in Cincinnati. He  received his Doctor of Divinity from HUC in 2014.

Presently, he is Hillel Director/Rabbi at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY, where is also an adjunct professor. He is executive director of the New York affiliate of Interfaith Power and Light (NYIPL), and the founder of Aklim: The Jewish Response to climate change (https://aklim.org). He teaches at Darshan Yeshiva as a mentor for conversion students across the globe.

He served congregations in New Jersey, Alabama, Louisiana and Philadelphia. His last pulpit was Temple Am Echad in Lynbrook, NY on Long Island. In New York he founded the South Shore Kallah, an annual gathering of Saturday evening study for non-Orthodox adults.

While in the Deep South, Rabbi Jacob was known as a civil rights activist. In Alabama, he worked on Church & State along with Reproductive Rights legislation. He was a state board member of Planned Parenthood. In Louisiana, he was involved with issues of public education and Black/Jewish relations. He still takes his 10^th graders to Washington DC once a year to lobby on the social issues of the day.

In Philadelphia Rabbi Jacob was the founding chair of the Interfaith Gathering of Lower Bucks (County). He instigated the opening of first branch of the Auerbach Central Agency of Jewish Education, located in Bucks County and he worked to open a supplementary (after school) high school program in Bucks County for Jewish teenagers with Gratz College. He also sat on the executive committee of “B’Yachad”, a committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia dedicated to building bridges between synagogues and Jewish agencies in the area.

He is also an accomplished Jewish storyteller and a teacher at the national conferences on Jewish Education. He is presently writing a commentary on a tractate of the Talmud, Pirke Avot, (The Ethics of the Fathers).