Kliel Rose

Rabbi Kliel is the spiritual leader of Congregation Etz Chayim. He was ordained in 2004 at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). As a senior rabbinical student, Kliel received the prestigious Rabbi Marshal T. Meyer Rabbinic Fellowship at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun. In 2014 he was awarded the Human Rights Hero Award by T’ruah: The rabbinic call for Human Rights. In 2018 he was selected as one of 20 North American Rabbis to train in the Clergy Leadership Incubator (CLI) fellowship program. CLI is a two-year program to support and encourage rabbis serving congregations or other new models of spiritual community in the areas of innovative thinking, change management and institutional transformation and is led by Rabbi Sid Schwarz.