As regional director of ADL New England, Rabbi Dr. Jonah Steinberg leads his team daily to fight antisemitism and all forms of hate in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Rabbi Steinberg comes to ADL after serving 12 years as the Director of Hillel at Harvard University. In that role, Steinberg transformed the organization into a leading Jewish voice on campus and well beyond the gates of Harvard. He did so while facing unprecedented hostility toward Israel and the organized Jewish community on campus. Rabbi Steinberg has been a bridge-builder and thought leader, having stood up not only for the Jewish community but for all members of marginalized communities.
He has served as Visiting Instructor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, taught at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of the American Jewish University, and headed the program in Rabbinic Literature and Civilization at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College before becoming Associate Dean of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College. “I am inspired by a great forerunner in this role, Lenny Zakim, of blessed memory, who, in a variation of Hillel’s famous words, said, ‘If we don’t speak up for ourselves, probably no one else will, but if we speak up only for ourselves then we are not complete.’ I am honored to lead the storied New England office and look forward to the work ahead.” said Rabbi Jonah Steinberg.
Rabbi Steinberg received his BA at Brown University and his MA, MPhil and PhD degrees at Columbia University.