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Rabbi Matt Reimer grew up in West Orange, NJ. Strongly immersed in Jewish education and activities throughout his life, Rabbi Reimer was ordained in 2007 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Most recently, he served as the Associate Director of Transition & Crisis Management for the Union for Reform Judaism. He has served congregations, both large and small, throughout the United States including New Jersey, San Luis Obispo, CA, and he was Senior Rabbi of Temple Sinai, in New Orleans, the oldest and largest Reform congregation in Louisiana.
Much of Rabbi Reimer’s outreach has focused on his work with the 20s & 30s and young family communities. Building and cultivating these two very important cohorts has been an integral part of his rabbinic work, and he continues to focus much time and energy on future generations.
As an undergraduate at Vassar College, he majored in music. Upon graduation, he spent a year in Israel, studying at Hebrew University, working at the Jerusalem Symphony, singing in a professional choir, playing flag football for the Israeli National team and traveling throughout the country.
Before entering rabbinical school, Rabbi Reimer worked for the New York Philharmonic and a major New York law firm as a Case Manager in their litigation department.
Rabbi Reimer is a member – now honorary – of the Israeli National Flag Football Team, an avid tennis player and an outdoor enthusiast. He listens to his music on “shuffle”, and at any time can hear tracks from the Grateful Dead, Beethoven, Phish, Bob Marley, A Tribe Called Quest, Sam Cooke, Eva Cassidy, Vulfpeck, Stravinsky and more.
Rabbi Reimer hosts the podcast Weird Being Jewish: