Rabbi Careers

Overview

Sixth & I is a center for arts, entertainment, and ideas and a synagogue that reimagines how religion and community can enhance people’s everyday lives. Housed within a revitalized historic space dating back to 1908 in the heart of the Nation’s Capital, our unexpected mix of cultural and spiritual programs embraces the multi- faceted identities of those we serve and offers wide-ranging, eye-opening, and accessible experiences to inspire more meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Our Jewish Life programming—including education, Shabbat services, holiday celebrations, social events, community-building cohorts, and social justice work—offers dynamic ways for those primarily in their 20s and 30s to engage with Jewish values, ideas, and traditions on their own terms and without judgment. As a multi- denominational, non-membership, and radically welcoming spiritual home, Sixth & I works to foster community among people at a similar stage of life, figuring out what matters to them and who they want to be. Unlike a traditional synagogue, the role we play in people’s lives is both temporary—in that we serve them at one phase of their lives, as they’re commonly shaping their post-college and pre-parenthood identities—and also long- lasting in that we plant seeds for living Jewishly and in community in ways that we hope will stick with them long after their time at Sixth & I.

Sixth & I seeks a rabbi to join our Jewish Life team to creatively, thoughtfully, and authentically serve and engage our community through these essential duties and responsibilities:

Build Community:

Connect newcomers to Judaism–including those converting to Judaism, non-Jewish partners of Jews, and Jews not actively practicing–and to each other by teaching the benefits of a shared sense of belonging.

Jewish Learning:

Demonstrate fluency in Jewish texts, a deep love of teaching Torah, and a penchant for innovative learning modalities.

Creatively make use of Sixth & I’s dual nature (spiritual and secular) to root personal spiritual growth in a relevant and nuanced 21st century context.

Teach existing Sixth & I curricula and new topics of your choosing.

Community Support and Partnerships:

Meet with students enrolled in Sixth & I’s range of intensive and introductory-level classes, as well as other spiritual seekers in need of rabbinic support and guidance.

Foster existing and develop new organizational partnerships with interfaith, Jewish communal, and justice-driven organizations.

 

Shabbat/Holiday Experiences and Prayer Services:

Create and lead meaningful, accessible prayer experiences for Shabbat and holidays, as well as alternative Shabbat and holiday programming;

Report to Executive Director of Jewish Life while exercising full range of communal and pastoral responsibilities.