Rab­bi Alex Braver returned to B’nai Jeshu­run and New York City in 2026 after a decade of ser­vice at Con­gre­ga­tion Tifer­eth Israel in Colum­bus, Ohio. 

After grad­u­at­ing from Bran­deis Uni­ver­si­ty in 2009, Alex received a fel­low­ship from the Hadar Insti­tute in 2010 for a year of Jew­ish study in their egal­i­tar­i­an yeshi­va. He was ordained in 2016 by the Jew­ish The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary, with an MA in Midrash and a cer­tifi­cate in Pas­toral Care and Counseling. 

His new book, The Snail and the Shell: 70 Faces of God, World, and Self (Izzun Books), is a pas­sion project explor­ing the sur­pris­ing and cre­ative metaphors for God and spir­i­tu­al life in tra­di­tion­al Ḥa­sidic texts, with orig­i­nal trans­la­tions, com­men­tary, and per­son­al reflections.