Rabbi Jason Rubenstein

Rabbi Jason Rubenstein is the second Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain at Yale. A native of Washington, D.C., and a proud product of Temple Micah, Jason is shaped by two years of study at Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa and holds rabbinic ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary. For the eight years prior to joining the Slifka Center, Jason taught on the faculty of the Hadar Institute, where he also served as Dean of Students and Alumni. In addition to rabbinic ordination, Jason holds an AB in Social Studies from Harvard College and a Masters in Talmud from JTS. He is also the recipient of numerous awards including the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and the Covenant Foundation’s 2015 Pomegranate Prize for Emerging Educators—and an avid cyclist and mediocre-but-devoted chess player. Jason’s intellectual work focuses on constructive Jewish thought that takes the fullness of human experience—love and hatred, loss, mortality, fear and hope, caring and betrayal—as the framework for which to form and reform categories of revelation, miracles, prayer, the afterlife, and obligation.