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Rabbi Jay Henry Moses
Director, Wexner Heritage Program

Rabbi Jay Henry Moses currently serves as the Director of the Wexner Heritage Program, North America’s premier Jewish Leadership Education program. He joined the staff of the Wexner Foundation in 2003.

Rabbi Moses got his start in Jewish leadership through NFTY, Reform Judaism’s youth movement. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English literature, magna cum laude. He pursued Rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and was awarded a Wexner Graduate Fellowship.

Ordained in 1997, Rabbi Moses served for five years as Associate Rabbi at Temple Sholom of Chicago. In this capacity, he oversaw one of the leading congregational Adult Education programs in North America. While in Chicago, Moses served as Treasurer for the Chicago Association of Reform Rabbis, and together with an Orthodox rabbi, he published a monthly column in the Chicago Jewish News.

From 2002 to 2003, Rabbi Moses studied Jewish mysticism in Jerusalem where he also taught and mentored rabbinical students at HUC-JIR. He has participated in the Rabbinic Program of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, an intensive study, meditation, and retreat program.

Rabbi Moses sits on the board of Kavod, a non-profit tzedakah collective, and also served as Kavod’s Shaliach (emissary) in Jerusalem and as its allocations chair. He is a member of the B’nai Ya’acov Council of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Rabbi Moses also sits on the steering committee for the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics under the auspices of the Museum of Jewish Heritage

Rabbi Moses has served on the Faculty of the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and its Makom: Center for Mindfulness, and has also taught at the 92nd Street Y and the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning.

Rabbi Moses lives in New York with his wife, Cantor Bat-Ami Moses, who serves as the Hazzan at the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue, and their sons, Caleb and Ezekiel.