Rabbi David Stern – Round Trip Spirituality – TEDxSMU 2010
Rabbi David Stern is Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanu‑El in Dallas, Texas. Prior to joining Temple Emanu‑El, David served as an intern at Central Synagogue in New York City. Rabbi Stern attended Hebrew Union College‑Jewish Institute of Religion at its Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles campuses, receiving his rabbinical ordination in 1989, his M.A. in Jewish Education in 1988 and his M.A. in Jewish Letters in 1986. In 2002, Rabbi Stern studied for six months at Harvard Divinity School while on sabbatical and in 2005, participated in a study mission to the Darfuri refuge camps on the Chad‑Sudan border. Stern serves as a board member of the Union for Reform Judaism and is a member of the Reform Movement’s Joint Commission on Social Action, where he has served as Vice Chair of the Commission and as Chair of the Task Force on Economic Justice. Locally, Rabbi Stern is a member of the Rabbinic Association of Greater Dallas and serves on the board of Dallas Faith Community Coalition.