Rabbi

We are pleased to announce the installation of our new rabbi, Brandon Bernstein, in August 2024.

Rabbi Brandon Bernstein has spent his rabbinate exploring ways to discover the intersection between what was and what is, between ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge. He grew up in the high desert of Southern California in Palmdale, then made his way north to earn a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Since his ordination in 2014 by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, he has primarily worked with college students and young adults, serving as the Reform Outreach Initiative Rabbi at Rutgers Hillel, the Campus Rabbi at Northwestern Hillel and Boston University Hillel, and the Director of Jewish Learning for Moishe House.

Brandon loves comic books, short story collections, board games, seeing movies at the theater, and communal singing, and he loves to find ways to connect his passions to Judaism. He has taken improv classes in four different cities and performed on two independent improv comedy teams. Brandon used this experience to develop “Yes And Torah,” a workshop that mixes short form improv games with text study. He is the co-host of Funny, They Don’t Look Jewish, a podcast that explores explicitly Jewish content within the pages of mainstream superhero comics. And he owns around 200 board games, so he’s pretty sure he can find one you would enjoy playing after a Shabbat meal!