Rabbi Marc Wolf

Rabbi Marc Wolf is vice chancellor and chief development officer of The Jewish Theological Seminary, directing JTS's financial resource-development efforts that raise over $20 million annually. Working with a dedicated team of professionals at JTS in New York and in regional offices throughout North America, Rabbi Wolf oversees the dissemination of JTS resources to the larger community through study groups with JTS rabbinic fellows, public lectures, virtual educational programs, podcasts, and Torah From JTS—weekly Jewish learning distributed via email to more than 30,000 people around the world. He works closely with Chancellor Arnold Eisen to secure funding for and implement the 2010 JTS Strategic Plan, bringing the resources of JTS to bear on the broader Jewish community.

As the primary JTS liaison to Conservative rabbis, Rabbi Wolf directs the continuing rabbinic education agenda of JTS and serves on the boards of the Alliance for Continuing Rabbinic Education and the Joint Retirement Board for Conservative Judaism.

Rabbi Wolf serves as the rabbi of the JTS High Holiday services, which have been free and open to the public for decades; was the lead curriculum writer for Chancellor Eisen's Mitzvah Initiative; has authored numerous JTS Weekly Torah Commentaries; and has appeared in the New York Times and on NPR and CNN writing and speaking on religion and philanthropy. He lives in White Plains, New York, with his wife, Rebecca, a PhD candidate in American Jewish History at New York University, and their three children.

Marc Wolf