Gladstein Fellowship

The Gladstein Fellowship is a program operated by the Jewish Theological Seminary allowing selected students of the seminary to serve in the capacity of rabbi of a selected congregation.

Congregations selected by JTS to benefit from the Gladstein Fellowship program are offered three Gladstein fellows each for a two-year period for a total of six years with the option of hiring any of the fellows to a permanent position. Gladstein fellows normally visit the congregations for which they are selected monthly, are available to congregants by phone and email at other times, and receive a stipend in exchange for their services.^[1]

History

The Gladstein Fellowship program was founded by Ned and Jane Gladstein in 2003. The first congregation to benefit from the program was Loudon Jewish Congregation in Leesburg, Virginia.^[2]

List of benefiting congregations

Congregation name	Location	Years	Fellows
Sha’are Shalom	Leesburg, Virginia	2003-2004	Jason Miller (rabbi)[2]
Sha’are Shalom	Leesburg, Virginia	2004-2005	Kim Blumenthal
Sha’are Shalom	Leesburg, Virginia	2006-2010	Michael Ragozin[2]
Beth Shalom[1]	Lake Norman, North Carolina		Adam Baldachin (2011–13)[3]
Beth Sholom	Frederick, Maryland	2013-	Jordan Hersh (2013–15)[4]
New Stoke Newington Shul	London, England	2013-2015	Roni Tabick (2013–15)[5](Roni became synagogue's rabbi after ordination in 2015)
Chevrei Tzedek Congregation	Baltimore, Maryland	2015-2019	Emily Barton (2015–17);[6] Rory Katz (2017-2019 and hired after ordination)[7]
Congregation Eitz Chaim	Monroe, New York	2016–Present	Louis Polisson (2016-2018)[8] [9] Ariana Siegel (2018–2020)
Congregation Agudath Achim	Little Rock, Arkansas	2019-2021	Ben Freed (2019-2021)