Role Overview
Brown RISD Hillel is seeking a visionary and dynamic rabbi to serve as a spiritual leader for a one-year interim position, ideally running from July 2025 to July 2026. This role offers a unique opportunity to elevate Jewish wisdom and inspire meaningful Jewish practice and engagement across the vibrant College Hill community.
We welcome applications from individuals who have completed rabbinical school, as well as those in their final year of an accredited Orthodox rabbinical training program.
What You’ll Do
- Strengthen daily minyanim and Shabbat minyanim with your presence, words of Torah, and cultivation of students spiritual growth. Be a presence at Shabbat & Chag meals. Lead Friday night Onegs.
- Lead High Holiday services for students and the University community.
- Nurture the growth of BRH’s Orthodox communities by creating relationships with Jewish high schools around the country; be an ambassador for the growth of Jewish and religious life on College Hill.
- Elevate BRH’s Englander Beit Midrash as a center for Jewish intellectual and cultural engagement, text study, and platform for emerging Jewish voices.
- Travel with students to Israel on educational experiences like Hartman, Birthright, Volunteer Missions over winter and spring breaks.
- Develop strong relationships with students, serving as mentor, pastor, and rabbi.
On a day to day basis you will
- Start your day with a student-led minyan.
- Meet with students in coffee shops across College Hill.
- Transform The Ratty (Brown’s most popular dining hall) into a Beit Midrash getting to know students where they are most comfortable.
- Collaborate with student leaders shaping an educational vision for asking big Jewish questions and seeking answers through initiatives in the BRH Beit Midrash.
- Gather with a dozen students to explore pressing contemporary questions through the prism of Jewish wisdom.
- Collaborate with Chabad partners and BRH neighbors to support the growth of students’ Jewish identity.
What You’ve Accomplished
- Rabbinic ordination from a recognized Orthodox seminary in America or Israel, or currently enrolled in the final year of an Orthodox rabbinical program.
- Experience in Hillel, youth movements, camping, or experiential Jewish education.
- Proven success in community building and outreach, and previous experience in program visioning and implementation.
What You’ll Bring to the Job
- Capacity to translate a wide variety of Jewish textual traditions.
- A compassionate heart.
- A sense of humor.
- Connectivity to leading change makers in the Jewish world.
- Expansive vision for the possibilities of Jewish community and learning on a leading university campus.
- A commitment to Zionism and the future of Israel.
- A joyful, optimistic, cooperative way of being in the world.
- Broad passions and interests.
- Uncompromising commitment to Jewish pluralism.
What You’ll Receive
- Compensation will be commensurate with experience, as we are currently exploring a few different role configurations. Full-time annual salary range of $90,000-100,000k, with part-time possibility, prorated accordingly.
- Great professional development, mentoring, and skill building opportunities.
- Travel regionally and abroad, particularly to Israel.
About Brown RISD Hillel
Brown RISD Hillel is a nationally recognized leader in Jewish campus engagement, and is the gateway to Jewish life for students at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). More than a center for Jewish programming and ritual, Hillel is an integral part of the social, cultural, educational, and political life for students. Brown RISD Hillel is situated in the historic College Hill neighborhood of Providence, R.I., a cool urban center for creative entrepreneurs, recent grads, and young families. 45 minutes from Boston and just a short drive to beautiful New England beaches, Providence is a desirable emerging city, hosting a diverse and vibrant Jewish community with kosher restaurants and multiple synagogues.
Brown RISD Hillel is affiliated with Hillel International. Hillel International enriches the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world, and envisions a world where every student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel.
About Hillel International
In 1923, Rabbi Benjamin Frankel started Hillel with humble means, a noble mission and a breathtaking vision: to convey Jewish civilization to a new generation. Today, Hillel International continues to enrich the lives of Jewish students and is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across North America and around the world. As Hillel evolves as an organization, the mission remains steadfast: to create lasting connections with every Jewish student that foster an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel and train them to become the next Jewish leaders.
Hillel is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an accepting and inclusive environment for all.