Rabbi Borovitz was elected the Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Avodat
Shalom in River Edge in June 2013 after serving the synagogue as rabbi
for the previous 25 years. Prior to assuming his position in River
Edge in the summer of 1988 Rabbi Borovitz served as Hillel Rabbi and
Instructor in Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of
Texas in Austin (1975-82), the Executive Director of the Labor Zionist
Alliance on the United States, (1982-83) and as the Rabbi of Union
Temple in Brooklyn, New York (1983-88).
Rabbi Borovitz, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, received his B.A. from
Vanderbilt University in 1970, his M.A. from Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religious (HUC-JIR) in 1973 and was
ordained at HUC-JIR in June 1975. In March of 2000, he was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Divinity from HUC-JIR.
Rabbi Borovitz is an active leader in community affairs. He has been a
member of the Bergen County Interfaith Brotherhood Sisterhood
committee for 25 years. He is the immediate past chair of Jewish
Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey and has also served on the Jewish Federation Board. He
currently serves on the National Board of the Jewish Council for
Public Affairs; the Rabbinic cabinet of the Jewish Federations of
North America and on the Foundation Board of Bergen Regional Medical
Center, the county hospital in Bergen County NJ. He is past President
of the Bergen County Board of Rabbis and the North Jersey Board of
Rabbis as well as the founding chairman of the Jewish Learning Project
of Bergen County Rabbi Borovitz is a frequent contributor to the
Jewish Standard and the Bergen Record and a frequent lecturer on
Judaism; The Middle East and Interfaith cooperation.
