RABBI ROBERT R. GOLUB

Rabbi Robert R. Golub is the Executive Director of MERCAZ USA the Zionist organization of the Conservative Movement. Ordained in 1978 by the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Golub served as both a congregational rabbi in the United States and a senior university administrator in Israel before coming to MERCAZ in 1995.

Golub received both his BA and MA from UCLA. Following studies at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, he completed his rabbinical education in New York in 1978. After serving as a congregational rabbi in Long Island and New Jersey, Rabbi Golub moved to Israel in 1984, settling in Haifa. There he worked as a high school rabbinics teacher and later as the Head of External Relations at the Technion. He returned to the United States in 1991 and came to MERCAZ four years later.

MERCAZ USA is the Zionist representative of the Conservative Movement within the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency. A grass-roots organization lobbying on behalf of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, MERCAZ is supported by individual and family memberships. MERCAZ USA works together with MERCAZ Olami, the international umbrella for Conservative Judaism's Zionist affiliates in North and South America, Europe and Israel.

Rabbi Golub is married to the former Judith Rubin, and they are the parents of a son and daughter who live and work in New York City.

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