Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz has been Rabbi of Congregation Adath Israel since 2005. In his time here he has become beloved by the members of our community and an important ambassodor to the Bay Area Jewish community. With his easy going nature, warm personality, and engaging teaching style, he has galvanized our community and helped with our growth. He has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and in the book Straight Down the Middle, a book about golf and religion written by renowned author Joshua Karp. Rabbi Strulowitz was raised in North Miami Beach, FL and graduated from Hillel Community Day School. He attended Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim in Jerusalem , and continued on to Yeshiva University where he graduated cum laude with a BA in Economics and an award for excellence in Talmudic studies.
While at YU he was program director and co-founder of Panim, a college outreach program. He then spent two years at YU's Gruss Institute in Jerusalem. He continued on to TORCH, a community kollel in Houston, TX where he taught numerous classes throughout the community including at NASA's Johnson Space Center. In September 2005 he began his post as Rabbi of Congregation Adath Israel. In his time here he has become beloved by the members of our community and an important ambassodor to the Bay Area Jewish community. With his easy going nature, warm personality, and engaging teaching style, he has galvanized our community and helped with our growth. Rabbi Strulowitz and his wife Bethany have three adorable daughters.
Read about Rabbi Strulowitz in the local Jewish newspaper:
June 18, 2009: License to carry: Eruv marks a San Francisco first
June 4, 2009: Orthodox rabbi to talk up S.F. in NYC
April 4, 2008: Feast on this: First-timers gobble up Jewish insight
Sept. 14, 2007: Rabbis encourage ‘watering of the soul’ on Days of Awe
October 13, 2006: Imagine John Lennon as a Jewish sage for the modern world
Feb. 17, 2006: S.F. rabbi teaches how to use logic against missionaries
Sept. 23, 2005: Adath Israel’s new rabbi is a scuba-diving, major Beatles fan
