Past Clergy

Rabbi Chana Leslie Glazer served our congregation from July 2020 through June 2023.  She carried Adat Reyim through the difficult months of the pandemic with pastoral skills and ritual innovation. 

Rabbi Emeritus Bruce D. Aft served as the spiritual leader of Adat Reyim from 1991-2020. The congregation's first full-time rabbi, Rabbi Aft helped the independent congregation nearly double in size and become a respected Jewish institution in the Washington region. 

Rabbi Tzvi Porath  served Adat Reyim as our part-time rabbi from 1984 to 1991. A distinguished and respected rabbi in Maryland for decades, Rabbi Porath came to Adat Reyim to help build our fledgling congregation.