Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz

Berlin, Germany

Jeremy BorovitzĀ is the Director of Jewish Learning for Hillel Germany and the Co-founder of Base Berlin. Jeremy was raised in Paramus, NJ, the son of a Reform rabbi and a lawyer for the Jewish Theological Seminary. He got a BA in Public Policy from the University of Michigan in 2009, and, with no better ideas for his future, joined the Peace Corps. Jeremy served in the village of Boyarka, Ukraine as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2010-2012, and then moved to Kiev, Ukraine, to work with the Jewish Community as a Jewish Service Corps fellow for the JDC. From Kiev, Jeremy moved to Jerusalem and spent two years studying study at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, where he received a certificate in Experiential Education. He worked for Moishe House as the European Director of Jewish Education, organizing Jewish Learning retreats in cities across Europe, from Paris to Moldova. In recent years, Jeremy was a co-founder and Director of Learning for Brooklyn Beit Midrash, a pluralistic collective of Jewish learners in Central Brooklyn. Jeremy received semikha (Rabbinic Ordination) with Rabbi Daniel Landes in his Yashrut program in February 2020.