We at Beth Shalom are pleased to announce the arrival of Rabbi Reiner in September.

Read below about our new Rabbi: 

 Fred N. Reiner has served as Senior Rabbi of Temple Sinai, Washington, DC, since July 1985. During his tenure the congregation has doubled in size to nearly 1200 households, added a nursery school, expanded its religious school, enlarged its building, and enriched the ritual, educational, and programmatic offerings.Rabbi Reiner served as president of the Washington Board of Rabbis (2000-02) and as president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR). He continues to serve on the Board of Trustees of the national CCAR and on the Washington Advisory Council of Avodah.  He has served on the faculty of the Howard University Divinity School under the sponsorship of the Jewish Chautauqua Society. He has provided leadership nationally and in the Washington area on issues such as reproductive rights, church-state separation, housing, D.C. voting rights, and aging concerns. He has published articles in the British Library Journal, Masoretic Studies, Biblical Archaeology Review, Moment, and the New Dictionary of National Biography.Rabbi Reiner was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois.  He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California-Berkeley, where he was a campus leader following the Free Speech Movement.  In 1973, he was ordained and received a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1973.

Since ordination, Rabbi Reiner has served as Director of Admissions at Hebrew Union College, pulpits in Topeka, Kansas, and suburban Chicago.

He is married to Dr. Sherry Levy-Reiner. They have a son, David, who is a senior rabbinic student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati.