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Joel Mosbacher

Dec 18, 2025, 11:42 PM

These have been lonely years for many of us. Since October 7, 2023, so many Jews have told me the same quiet truth: something shifted. Friends, colleagues, and classmates—people we thought understood us and cared about us as Jews...

Jan 22, 2025, 2:07 AM

I hear a King calling, still

This sermon was delivered by Rabbi Mosbacher at Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York City on January 17, 2025. As we gathered this past Friday evening to celebrate Dr. King’s legacy, I was reminded as I often am when I...

Nov 7, 2023, 3:34 AM

An Open Letter to My Interfaith Colleagues and Friends

A letter to my interfaith colleagues and friends: I want to start by thanking those of you who have reached out in the last month, who have expressed concern for my community and for the Jewish people and for the...

Oct 29, 2023, 5:45 PM

A Heart of Many Rooms

Two weeks ago, I spoke to my congregation about Hillel’s most famous maxim, and why it can be a frame for us in this moment as individuals. In the first century CE, Rabbi Hillel said, if I am not for...

Aug 17, 2017, 4:50 PM

There is no other hand

The teachers of Jewish tradition like to see arguments from all sides. Talmudic discussions often contrast conflicting points of view to weigh the relative merits of each. You’ll see the rabbis argue: “on the one hand… and on the...

About Me

Rabbi Joel Mosbacher has been the Senior Rabbi at Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York City since 2016, after having served congregations in Mahwah, New Jersey and Atlanta, Georgia.