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Rabbi Eric Yoffie (WZO)

Board Member

Rabbi Eric Yoffie is the President of the Union for Reform Judaism (formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations), the congregational arm of the Reform Movement in North America 

He previously served as Vice-President of the UAHC and Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism; and, before that as Executive Director of ARZA (the Association of Reform Zionists of America) and as Director of the UAHC's Midwest Council. A product of the Reform Movement, he once served as a regional president and national vice-president of National Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY). 

Raised in Worcester, MA, Rabbi Yoffie is a graduate of Brandeis University. He was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1974, and served congregations in Lynbrook, NY, and Durham, NC, before joining the UAHC in 1980.

 

Rabbi Yoffie has been a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors since October 1996.


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