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Rabbi Bennett F. Miller, a native of Rochester, N.Y., is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. He earned a Master of Arts and Hebrew Letters from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati where he was ordained a Rabbi in 1974. He also earned his doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1988. In March, 1999 he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity Degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Rabbi Miller serves as Senior Rabbi of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has been associated with Anshe Emeth since 1974. Before coming to Anshe Emeth, he was the spiritual leader of Congregation Havurah in Buffalo, N.Y. and Rabbinic Associate of Congregation Beth Tikvah in Columbus, Ohio. He is the National Chairman of the Rabbinic Cabinet of United Jewish Communities (formerly United Jewish Appeal). He has also served as a contributor to the Judaica Series of the Young Leadership Cabinet of United Jewish Appeal and to its Rabbinic publication, The Orchard. Rabbi Miller is a past president of the New Jersey Association of Reform Rabbis and of the New Jersey Coalition of Religious Leaders. He was formerly co-chair of the Faith-Based Task Force on Work First New Jersey, and he has served as a founding member of the New Jersey State Advisory Council on the Holocaust. He currently serves as a member of the National Commission on Rabbinic-Congregation Relations. He also serves on the Board of Rutgers University Hillel. Rabbi Miller has served as Co-Chairman of the UAHC Commission on Synagogue Management and as founding Co-Chairman of the UAHC Commission Synagogue Music. In the New Brunswick community, Rabbi Miler is the founding Chairman of the Clinical Pastoral Education Department at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and continues to serve as its Chairman. He is the Jewish Chaplain to the New Brunswick Police Force. He has served on the Board of Elijah's Promise, a non-profit interfaith organization dedicated to providing meals to the homeless and needy in New Brunswick. He served also on the New Brunswick Tercentennial Executive Committee. At the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Miller serves as Instructor in Pastoral Theology in the Doctor of Ministry Program. He is also a member of the Clinical Faculty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and he served as Instructor in Liturgy at the Jerusalem campus of the College-Institute. Rabbi Miller is the author of Reform Jewish Identity: Developing a Program of Ministry to Guide the New Member of a Reform Synagogue to Mature Jewish Living. He is also the author of Siduree: A Prayerbook for Young Children; The Songs of Anshe Emeth for Shabbat; and numerous creative worship services. Rabbi Miller has also written the teacher's guide to Why Pray? published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. He has had articles published in Compass Magazine and other periodicals and served for ten years as consultant to The Jewish Star, the newspaper of the Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County. Rabbi Miller and his wife Joan are residents of Monroe Township, New Jersey. They are the parents of two daughters, Carrie Miller Nussbaum of Edgewater, NJ, and Rabbi Ellie Miller of West Orange, NJ, and they are the proud grandparents of Sam, Meg, Jack, Max and Gabe. Email: rabbi@aemt.info |