About Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D.

Hayim Herring is Executive Director of STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal). Prior to leading STAR, he was a congregational rabbi for ten years, and a senior staff member of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation. Herring is a national thought and action leader on Jewish life and has pioneered local, regional and national innovative initiatives for close to 25 years. He has tremendous passion for creating a vibrant Jewish community and proven ability to take “big ideas” (like Synaplex™) and make them operational. He was cited in 2007, 2008, and 2009 in Newsweek Magazine as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America. Herring has published approximately 25 articles and studies about the contemporary rabbinate and the American Jewish community.