How do we connect our ancient tradition to the demands of our contemporary world?
What is needed for a renaissance in Jewish communal activity?

Join Rabbi Schwartzer for an evening of learning
that will combine classical Jewish sources
with contemporary communal questions.

Rabbi Rami Schwartzer is a spiritual leader and social entrepreneur with extensive experience in Jewish innovation. In the last five years, he has launched the Ramah Day Camp of Greater Washington, DC, now serving 275 campers per summer, as well a new kind of Jewish community for 20s and 30s in the DC area, for which he serves as co-director and NoVA community rabbi. Prior to his work in the DC area, Rami worked as the first coordinator of the Ramah Israel Bike Ride and Hiking Trip, now in its 9th year, and the first rabbi of Shalom Cypress, a new congregation outside of Houston.
 

Having trained as a congregational rabbi through the Gladstein Fellowship in Entrepreneurial Rabbinic Leadership, he has also served congregations in New York and Israel, and as a hospice chaplain in New York City. Rabbi Rami is the recipient of the Gladstein Fellowship, the Myers Foundation Rabbinic Initiative, and the OpenDor Project for rabbinic entrepreneurs. Rami holds degrees from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he received rabbinic ordination. He loves jazz music and long-distance biking, and currently lives in Arlington, VA.