Biography

Joe Blumberg is a third-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Originally from Lexington, Massachusetts, Joe pursued a career as a classical musician before finding his home in the Jewish world. He has worked as an educator at Brown RISD Hillel and spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in Jerusalem, where he also studied at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and worked with the Jerusalem African Community Center. Joe was a 2022-2023 rabbinical student fellow at Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, where he advised Jewish communities on their climate justice endeavors. He has served as a teacher and prayer leader around the country, most recently as a rabbinic intern at Congregation Shearith Israel in Dallas, Texas, and Beth Israel Congregation in Bath, Maine. Joe holds a B.A. in American History from Yale. Joe is the Senior Rabbinic Fellow and leads Aviv 20s + 30s programming at BJ.