Conservative Rabbinical Group Appoints Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal As Its New Head
Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, chief executive of the Rabbinical Assembly. Image by Courtesy
By Josefin Dolsten April 12, 2019
(JTA) — The Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly appointed Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal as its new chief executive.
Blumenthal, the spiritual leader at Shaare Torah in Gaithersburg, Maryland, will start in July, the organization announced Thursday.
He succeeds Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the first woman to serve as chief executive of a major rabbinical organization. She announced in March 2018 that she was stepping down.
Blumenthal, 52, started working at Shaare Torah after being ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1999, when the synagogue was in its startup phase. The congregation now counts 300 families among its members.
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