July 1, 2020
Dear Congregants:
Please join us in welcoming Rabbi Richard F. Address, DMin to our beloved congregation as our visiting rabbi, beginning today. Rabbi Address will support our congregation on a part-time basis through June 2021, when we hope to have our next full-time rabbi. Rabbi Address will help sustain us during the coming year by working with Cantor Barry during our search for our permanent rabbi. Rabbi Address will engage with our congregation in worship, education, and rabbinic guidance in part through visits to Jacksonville and also long-distance from his home in the Philadelphia suburb.
For an introduction to Rabbi Address in his own words, please click
HERE
.
Rabbi Address is the Founder and Director of Jewish Sacred Aging and he hosts the weekly podcast
Seekers of Meaning
. He is adjunct faculty at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University.
He served for over three decades on the staff of the Union for Reform Judaism and was the founding director of URJ’s Department of Jewish Family Concerns. Rabbi Address began his rabbinic career in Los Angeles congregations. He also served as a part time rabbi for Beth Hillel in Carmel, NJ while URJ regional director and, after his URJ tenure, served as senior rabbi of Congregation M’kor Shalom in Cherry Hill, NJ from 2011-2014. Rabbi Address was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1972 and holds his Doctor of Ministry degree and a Certification in Pastoral Counseling.
We know that you will enjoy getting to know Rabbi Address as much as we have. Please feel free to reach out to Rabbi Address by email at
rabbi@thetemplejax.org
to welcome him to Temple.
David Kaufman
President
Isabel Balotin
and
Miriam Greenhut
Rabbinic Search Committee Co-Chairs
