Scholar in Residence

Rabbi Robert R. Golub is the Executive Director of MERCAZ USA, the Zionist organization of the Conservative Movement. Ordained in 1978 by the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Golub served as both a congregational rabbi in the United States and a senior university administrator in Israel before coming to MERCAZ in 1995.

Rabbi Golub received both his BA and MA from UCLA. Following studies at the University of Judaism (now the Ziegler School of Rabbinics at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles) and congregational work in Long Island and New Jersey, Rabbi Golub moved to Israel in 1984, settling in Haifa. There he served as a high school rabbinics teacher and later as the Head of External Relations at the Technion. He returned to the United States in 1991 and came to MERCAZ four years later.

• Zionism and modern Israel
• Modern Jewish Thought