Our Clergy
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Rabbi Aaron S. Weininger
Senior Rabbi • Max Newman Family Chair in Rabbinics • Email Rabbi Aaron Weininger joined the Adath Jeshurun Congregation in 2012, upon receiving rabbinic ordination and an MA in Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he studied as a Schusterman Fellow. In June 2023 he assumed the Max Newman Family Chair in Rabbinics. In addition to becoming the first openly gay person admitted to rabbinical school in the Conservative movement, he became the first openly gay person appointed to the position of Senior Rabbi in a large Conservative congregation. Drawing from his unusual experience, Aaron cultivates the spark each person brings to Torah, prayer, and acts of kindness through the warmth of building community. Knowing what it feels like to be on the margins, he embraces Judaism as disorganized religion that thrives on questions of curiosity rather than answers of certainty. Everyone has a place to ask and to belong. During rabbinical school he was welcomed into communities as a teacher, preacher, and prayer leader in Statesville, NC, Portland, ME, Sag Harbor and White Plains, NY and across New York City. He trained as a chaplain in Clinical Pastoral Education for two summers at Bellevue Hospital Center, and a third with the Educational Alliance at a Kosher soup kitchen for older adults on the Lower East Side. From 2018-2021 Aaron served as co-chair of the Minnesota Rabbinical Association and joined Honeymoon Israel as rabbi for the MSP cohort in January 2020. He serves on the Editorial Committee of Siddur Lev Shalem for Weekdays and the JTS Chancellor's Rabbinic Cabinet. He is a board member of Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis as well as the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, of which he is an alum of its Clergy Leadership Program that fuses mindfulness practice with Jewish learning. |
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Rabbi Harold J. Kravitz
Rabbi Emeritus • Email Rabbi Harold J. Kravitz is Rabbi Emeritus of the Adath Jeshurun Congregation, Minnetonka, MN. He has served there since 1987, and held the Max Newman Family Chair in Rabbinics from 1996 to 2023. He was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1987. He serves as President of the Rabbinical Assembly, the more than 1600 member global professional association of the Conservative/Masorti Movement. He has served on the RA's Va’ad Hakavod (Professional Ethics Committee) for 18 years and chaired it for six years. He is Past Board Chair of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger. He served on the Rabbinic Advisory Committee of the Center for Contemporary Mussar. He is married to Cindy Reich. They are the parents of Gabriel (Yael Smiley), Talia and Elana. Grandparents of Joshua and Yona Smiley Kravitz |
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Hazzan Joanna Dulkin
Hazzan • Email As the Hazzan of Adath Jeshurun, Joanna Dulkin is committed to innovative musical and spiritual leadership that inspires joy, connection and meaning at all ages and stages. She received her Masters of Sacred Music and Investiture from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2004, and completed the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Cantorial Leadership Program in 2007. She is an honors graduate of Stanford University, where she studied English, sang a cappella, and led community High Holiday Services. Her background as a songleader, musician and educator led her to the cantorate. Hazzan Dulkin has taught and performed internationally as a cantor, musician and scholar-in-residence and is also a published writer and an award-winning composer. She is an officer of the Cantors Assembly, and was on the editorial committee of Siddur Lev Shalem. Hazzan Dulkin and her husband, Rabbi Dr. Ryan Dulkin, are the proud parents of Zac and Jesse. |
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Reb Jim Sherman
Rabbis' Associate • Email Reb Jim Sherman is a member of the Adath staff as the Rabbis’ Associate. He leads the Etzion Adult Study Group and B.L.T. (Bagels, Lox, & Torah) as well as being a part of the rotation of leaders for the Tuesday Torah Study at Adath. He and his wife Estie, are proud parents, grandparents, and great grandparents. |
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