HUC-JIR Los Angeles Campus

Sheldon Marder

Acting Dean during the 1996/1997 academic year, Rabbi Marder, has served in the College-Institute's administration since 1989, in many capacities, including Associate Dean. Rabbi Marder has served on the board of the College-Institute's Wexner Rabbinic Residencies Program, as chair of L.A. campus admissions committees, student advisement, the development of co-curricular programs and supervision of rabbinic fieldwork. Since the early 1980s Rabbi Marder has taught the topic of prayer in the hospital to HUC-JIR rabbinic students.

In 1997 he was appointed Director of the School of Rabbinic Studies for the California campus.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Rabbi Marder was ordained at the College-Institute's New York campus in 1978. Prior to joining the HUC-JIR administration, he served Temple Israel of Long Beach, California; he was Jewish chaplain at UCLA and St. Vincent Medical Centers.