Rabbi Jan Uhrbach

RABBI JAN R. UHRBACH has been the spiritual leader of our congregation since 1999.   In addition to her congregational work, Rabbi Uhrbach is a well-known teacher of Torah and a gifted writer and liturgist.   In addition to teaching numerous private study groups, Rabbi Uhrbach has served on the faculties of the  Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbinical School and  Wexner Heritage Foundation.  She has also taught and served as scholar-in-residence at the 92nd Street Y, the Skirball Center for Adult Learning, The Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, and many synagogues. Rabbi Uhrbach served on the Editorial Committee of Machzor Lev Shalem, the new High Holy Day prayerbook published by the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, and is the associate editor of Siddur Lev Shalem, a Shabbat and Festival prayerbook scheduled for publication by the Rabbinical Assembly in 2015.  Rabbi Uhrbach has also published numerous essays.

Rabbi Uhrbach received her ordination from JTS, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and the recipient of academic prizes in theology, philosophy, Talmud, and professional skills.

The rabbinate is Rabbi Uhrbach’s second career. A graduate of Yale University (1985) and Harvard Law School (1988), Rabbi Uhrbach served as Law Clerk to Federal District Judge Kimba M. Wood. She then joined the New York law firm of Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, where she specialized in media litigation. Rabbi Uhrbach became a partner of the firm in January, 1996.

Click here to read some of Rabbi Uhrbach’s teachings and divrei Torah.

Photograph by Ellen Fisher Turk.