Rabbi Jonathan Shulman is the Director of Alumni Leadership and New Initiatives at Yeshivat Orayta and the Creator and Coordinator of OU/JLIC in Israel. Before moving back to Israel in 2014, he served as Director of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at the University of Pennsylvania and the Orthodox Rabbi of Penn Hillel. He also worked for Rav Adin Steinsaltz, translating several chapters of the Steinsaltz Talmud into English for Koren Talmud Bavli.
He received his BA in Foreign Affairs from The University of Virginia, and, during his studies at Yeshivat Mir he passed the Israeli Rabbanut’s Smicha Exam in Issur v’heter and received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa and Zalman Nehemia Goldberg. He is currently a member of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). Prior to working for OU/JLIC at Penn Hillel, Rabbi Shulman served as the director for the Overseas Learning Program at the Afikim Jewish Center at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has held teaching positions at Yeshivat Shvilei Hatorah and Yeshivat Torat Chayim in Jerusalem. He served as a rabbinic intern with Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat, receiving individual training in pastoral counseling, communal work and ceremony. Rabbi Shulman has also worked in international development in northern India, restaurant management and development, and is an Iyengar yoga instructor.
Rabbi Shulman brings energy, passion, and openness to Jewish life. He teaches a variety of classes including in-depth Talmud, halakha, and leadership training. He is currently creating Jerusalem Summer, an internship and beit midrash program for young professionals and college students.
He is originally from Washington, DC and now lives with his wife Jenny and their three children Eliyahu, Chana and Naftali in Metar, Israel.
He received his BA in Foreign Affairs from The University of Virginia, and, during his studies at Yeshivat Mir he passed the Israeli Rabbanut’s Smicha Exam in Issur v’heter and received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa and Zalman Nehemia Goldberg. He is currently a member of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). Prior to working for OU/JLIC at Penn Hillel, Rabbi Shulman served as the director for the Overseas Learning Program at the Afikim Jewish Center at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has held teaching positions at Yeshivat Shvilei Hatorah and Yeshivat Torat Chayim in Jerusalem. He served as a rabbinic intern with Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat, receiving individual training in pastoral counseling, communal work and ceremony. Rabbi Shulman has also worked in international development in northern India, restaurant management and development, and is an Iyengar yoga instructor.
Rabbi Shulman brings energy, passion, and openness to Jewish life. He teaches a variety of classes including in-depth Talmud, halakha, and leadership training. He is currently creating Jerusalem Summer, an internship and beit midrash program for young professionals and college students.
He is originally from Washington, DC and now lives with his wife Jenny and their three children Eliyahu, Chana and Naftali in Metar, Israel.