Content by Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz

Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz has served as the Senior Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Shalom in Westborough, MA since 2012. She is the co-founder of Central MA Connections in Faith, an interfaith project that has brought over 300 people representing over 20 different faith traditions together to learn about and from each other.

Ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2006, she was formerly Associate Rabbi at Congregation B’nai Israel, Bridgeport, CT for 6 years. She is a graduate of the Clal (National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership) student program, and the first cohort of Clal’s groundbreaking Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship. Since 2013 she has served as a mentor with the Clergy Leadership Incubator program led by Rabbi Sid Schwarz, training visionary spiritual leaders for the American Jewish community. In 2021 she became the co-chair of the Worship and Ritual committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR).

In her early years, her family was part of a Modern Orthodox community in the suburbs of London. During her college years, she became involved in the Reform community and Jewish Renewal, interning for Rabbi Arthur Waskow and The Shalom Center and Elat Chayyim retreat center in 2000.