The Life of Sarah

Oct 29, 2018 | by Rabbi Steven Burg

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Rabbi Steven Burg

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Rabbi Steven Burg is the Director General (Mankal) of Aish HaTorah Jerusalem and Aish HaTorah globally.

In addition to Rabbinic Ordination and a Masters in Medieval Jewish History, both from Yeshiva University, Rabbi Burg has has completed management courses at the Harvard Business School and at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.

Following his ordination, he embarked on a 22-year career at the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU). In 2005, Rabbi Burg became the youngest International Director of NCSY, the youth movement of the OU, and spent the next years restructuring the organization. Under his leadership, NCSY grew to serve tens of thousands of Jewish teens around the world and sent over 2,000 adolescents to Israel every summer. Rabbi Burg was the founder of the Jewish Student Union (JSU), a network of hundreds of public high School clubs that teaches unaffiliated Jewish teens about their heritage. Rabbi Burg also started the Anne Samson Jerusalem Journey (TJJ), an Israel experience for unaffiliated Jewish Teens, the success of which was recently highlighted in a study. Through NCSY, Rabbi Burg became one of the foremost leaders in Jewish teen engagement and is considered an authority on teen spirituality and development. Rabbi Burg later served as the Managing Director of the OU. Under Rabbi Burg’s leadership, the OU increased internal efficiency, developed greater programming synergy among the OU’s many branches, and redefined the OU’s focus.

Most recently, Rabbi Burg served as the Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a global Jewish human rights organization that confronts anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promotes human rights and dignity, stands with Israel, and defends the safety of Jews worldwide.

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