Rabbi Position Announcement
On Friday night, August 7th, 2015, I sat in the basement of a Lutheran church in Chicago's Lincoln Park that served as a gathering space for a new, explicit non-Zionist, Jewish synagogue. Here, a "congregation" without a space of its own has found an occasional resting place in a Christian church, a handful of whose welcoming members were there that Friday, celebrating the emergence of Tzedek Chicago as a "prefigurative" Jewish community oriented by a social justice compass... That night, I was in the church's basement to participate in Tzedek's first public Kabbalat Shabbat. Rabbi Brant Rosen, the liberal Zionist turned radical non-Zionist Palestine solidarity activist, led the service. However, the work of meaning-making, reclaiming, and innovating within the Jewish tradition has been a collaborative, communal project from the very beginning, from that exhilarating Friday through the community's continued democratic effort to envision itself beyond mere resistance.
-- Atalia Omer, Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 153.
On March 20th, 2024 (10 Adar II 5784), after almost ten years, Tzedek Chicago's founding Rabbi, Rabbi Brant Rosen, announced that he would step down from his position in Spring 2026 in order to make space for a new anti zionist rabbi to lead our community. Since that time the congregation has formed a Rabbi Search Committee, and that committee has embarked on the process of finding a new Rabbi to lead our quickly growing community into the future.
The Rabbi Search Committee is now proud to announce that we are now accepting applications for the next Rabbi of Tzedek Chicago.
How to Apply
To apply please consult the following:
Applications are due by December 1st 2025, and may be made using this form to provide the following:
- Cover letter;
- Sample drash/d’var Torah as a document or video. Please limit your submission to five pages if written or ten minutes if recorded;
- Name and contact information for two references who can speak to your capacity to work in community;
- Documentation of ordination
We will acknowledge receipt of all applications but will not review any applications until after the December 1st, 2025 deadline.
If you have any questions about the application process please contact the Rabbi Search Committee.
From the Rabbi Search Committee we would like to say thank you for your interest in serving our community.