Rabbi Melinda Mersack

Rabbi Melinda Mersack was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2000. Rabbi Mersack is a graduate of m2: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education Senior Educators and Relational Learning cohorts. She is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow, a network of rabbis spanning denominations and viewpoints whose goal is to develop and communicate a Judaism that speaks to contemporary American issues, and completed the other following fellowships: Shomer Collective Educator Fellowship, Rekindle: Black Jewish Dialogue, and The Rabbi Balfour Brickner Fellowship, a program through the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism that supports rabbis in expressing Jewish values through social justice work.  

Rabbi Mersack is a past president of the Greater Cleveland Board of Rabbis and Gross Schechter Day School. She serves on the board and faculty of Goldman Union Camp Institute, the regional Union of Reform Judaism overnight camp. She also serves on the board of The Gathering Place.

Prior to becoming the Director of jHUB, Rabbi Mersack served as a rabbi at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple. Rabbi Mersack also holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters of Hebrew Letters from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion.