Jonathan Rosenblatt

Who is Jonathan Rosenblatt?

Jonathan Rosenblatt is an American Rabbi.

Rabbi Rosenblatt was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the great-grandson of Yossele Rosenblatt. And grandson of Rabbi Samuel Rosenblatt. Rabbi Rosenblatt earned the BA and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University in Comparative Literature. He has a PhD from Columbia University in the field of Modern British Literature, and wrote his dissertation on Ulysses by James Joyce. He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and was ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in 1982. He is married to an attorney, Tzipporah Rosenblatt, daughter of Rabbi Isadore Twersky and granddaughter of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik. They have four children: Judah, Tonya, Samuel and Rivka.

Rabbi Rosenblatt is the rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center in the Riverdale neighborhood of New York City. Rabbi Rosenblatt is often invited to speak at clergy conferences on building spiritual values and a feeling of community in congregations.