A Conversation with Rabbi Jack Moline

Elanna Cahn — October 2, 2013 – 3:21 pm | Comments (0) Add a comment

“It’s a great opportunity and a chance to leave my mark in a different way on the American Jewish community. My path into Jewish life had as much to do with activism as it did with religious commitment,” Moline, 61, says.

As a religious leader, Moline has been to numerous official White House meetings, mostly as director of public policy for the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, a position he held from 2009 until May, and has met both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. On Monday, the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) announced that Moline would take over in January as executive director. He replaces David A. Harris, who left last February. NJDC promotes Jewish support for candidates at the state and local levels and aims to educate Democratic elected officials and candidates on what it considers Jewish domestic and foreign priorities.

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“Rabbi Moline brings a wide and exciting range of abilities and experience to NJDC,” said Marc Stanley, chair of the NJDC board of directors. “His work as national co-chair of Rabbis for Obama, coordinator of public policy for the Conservative movement, coupled with his interfaith expertise and teaching and facilitating skills, make him a terrific leader for NJDC moving ahead.”

As the spiritual head of his congregation, Moline has been involved in and spoken out on numerous social issues in the news and was the president of the Washington Board of Rabbis. He also has served with Alexandria Call to Community, is a board member of the Interfaith Alliance and is a Capitol Hill reflection group leader for the Faith and Politics Institute.

He has been invited to the White House and even contributed to then-President Bill Clinton’s eulogy for slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Moline, who was named as one of the top rabbis in the country by Newsweek magazine in 2008 and 2010, is excited about entering into the political fray at a time when many people are being turned off by politics.

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