Rabbi White
Senior Jewish Chaplain
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Harold S. White is a native of Hartford, CT. He completed his undergraduate degree at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and received Rabbinical Ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. He served as a U.S. Navy Chaplain at Parris Island, SC and with the 7th Fleet in the Pacific. He has served as a congregational Rabbi at the Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation in Dublin, Ireland and at Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, MI. He served as the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation Director at the American University in Washington, DC for nine years prior to his being appointed Jewish Chaplain of Georgetown University. Rabbi White is the first rabbi to be appointed to a full-time Campus Ministry position by a Catholic university. He teaches in the Theology Department of Georgetown and has been very active in creating a milieu of Jewish-Christian theological dialogue in the greater Washington metropolitan area. Rabbi White's current academic interests center about Kabbalistic Studies and the Judaic roots of Christian Scripture. He has been deeply involved in ecological issues and the protection of animal rights.
Rabbi White was also the associate rabbi of Temple Sinai in Washington, DC from 1980-1985. He has lectured extensively nationwide. He currently serves as scholar-in-residence at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, VA and at Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, PA.
Several of Rabbi White's sermons will be posted on this page - in this space - soon.
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