Rabbi Akselrad

Rabbi Sanford Akselrad came to Las Vegas in 1988 where he has served as the spiritual leader of Congregation Ner Tamid. During this time the Synagogue has grown from 60 to over 600 families, becoming the largest Reform Synagogue in the State of Nevada. In his nearly 19 years of service to our Congregation, Rabbi Akselrad has served on a wide variety of community boards including the Humana Hospital Pastoral Advisory Board, the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, and the National Conference of Community and Justice. He is currently the President of the Clark County Board of Rabbis and he is a founding member. He is a past chair of the National Conference of Community and Justice's Inter-faith Council and past chair of the Federation's Community Relations Council (CRC). Rabbi Akselrad is currently a board member of the Anti-defamation League in Las Vegas and a member of the board of the Governor's Council on Holocaust Education. Recently, Rabbi Akselrad was appointed to serve on a National Commission on Jewish Living, Worship and Music for the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ). He has also served on the Outreach Committee (to inter-faith families) of the URJ and is currently a member of the URJ's Worship Commission. Rabbi Akselrad was ordained from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1984. His rabbinic thesis dealt with the moral implications of the Holocaust and how the Holocaust is taught in public and private schools. Upon ordination, Rabbi Akselrad served as the associate Rabbi of one of the largest Reform Congregations in the mid-west, Temple Israel of Columbus, Ohio. Rabbi is married to Joni and has two children, CJ and Sam.

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