Rabbi Will Hall

Temple Beth Shalom is excited to introduce Rabbi Will Hall, our new assistant rabbi joining our temple in July 2023. Rabbi Hall currently serves as rabbi and senior Jewish educator of Texas Hillel Foundation. A Houston native and 8th generation Texan, he is a proud University of Texas graduate, where he majored in Jewish and Religious Studies. Ordained in 2021 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s (HUC) Cincinnati campus, Rabbi Hall’s thesis focused on identity formation through the lens of sociology. 

While at HUC-JIR, Rabbi Hall participated in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Yearlong Seminar for Rabbinical Students, served as the student rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom in Bryan-College Station and Temple Israel of Marion, Ohio, and earned a Master’s Concentration in Israel Education from the iCenter for Israel Education.

Before rabbinical school he studied at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and, during his time in school, participated in interfaith programming at the Chautauqua Institution and Hebrew immersion study at Middlebury College in Vermont. 

Rabbi Hall shares his thoughts about his selection:

I am incredibly excited to join this community, to learn with you, and to make the Temple Beth Shalom community my home as well. I am humbled to work with the clergy and staff teams and to seek mentorship from Rabbi Steinman.

L’shalom,
Rabbi Will Hall

We are immensely grateful to the members of our temple's Rabbi Recruitment Committee for their tireless work in this process. They spent hours in the hopes of this positive outcome. This is a wonderful moment in our congregation’s story. We cannot wait for you to meet Rabbi Hall soon. 

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