You're invited to a Community Shabbat Dinner to get to know our Rabbinic Candidate Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein.

About Rabbi Rothstein:

Rabbi Isaiah Joseph Rothstein serves as Rabbinic Scholar and Public Affairs Advisor at Jewish Federations of North America. Prior to JFNA, Isaiah was rabbi-in-residence at Adamah, Isabella Freedman, and Be’chol Lashon. He also served as rabbi for youth at Carmel Academy, Young Israel of Stamford, NCSY, and Camp Yavneh. Isaiah studied at Kushner Yeshiva High School, Lev HaTorah, Machon Lev, and Binghamton University, and received rabbinic ordination and a masters of social work from Yeshiva University.

Raised in a multi-racial Chabad family from Monsey, NY, he sees himself as a human bridge, connecting disparate parts of the Jewish community and America. Isaiah is a member of Rabbis Without Borders, and Schusterman Foundations’ ROI + Senior Fellowships, and was listed in Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36.” Isaiah has also been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, and Jewish publications across the world. When not working to keep the world safe for the Jewish people and democracy, Isaiah is writing a musical about Queen Esther. Isaiah will be joined on his visit by his wife, filmmaker Leah Gottfried.