Rabbi Dan Rabishaw comes to Congregation Am Echod after having served for five years as the Union for Reform Judaism’s Great Lakes Regional Director.  Prior to that, Rabbi Rabishaw served congregations in Cincinnati, Houston and Memphis.  During each of his rabbinical roles, whether congregational or organizational, Rabbi Rabishaw has focused on congregational systems and transition, cradle-to-grave Jewish education and helping individual Jews find their place as meaningful members of the Jewish community.

In addition to Rabbi Rabishaw’s education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the seminary from which he was ordained in 1994, Rabbi Rabishaw attended the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where he majored in communications and business; the University of Memphis, where he took several classes incounseling psychology and, most recently, the Lake Forest Graduate School of Business where he is on track to earn his MBA in 2011. 

Despite Dan’s dedication to his ongoing education, his central focus is on his wife, Debbie and their two children Aaron, a soon-to-be freshman at Glenbrook North High School and Joie, a soon-to-be second grader at Hickory Point Elementary School in Northbrook.  He is also an avid Cubs fan, a voracious reader and a lover of the outdoors.   Most of all, Dan takes his role as “Rabbi” very seriously and strives to live the values he teaches and engage in the Jewish struggle that we all share.