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Rabbi Nathan S. Kamesar is honored to serve as the Rabbi for the Society Hill Synagogue community, having served with the community since 2014, first as Rabbinic Intern, then Associate Rabbi, now as Senior Rabbi. Rabbi Kamesar was ordained, and received an M.A. in Hebrew Letters, at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in June 2018. While in rabbinical school, Nathan served as President of the Reconstructionist Student Association and was honored with the Tikkun Olam Award for service to the college community. He also earned an M.S. degree in Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 and was selected by his classmates to be the graduation speaker for that program. 

Rabbi Kamesar loves teaching and has taught courses at Society Hill Synagogue on a wide range of subjects including Jewish Perspectives on Theodicy: Why Bad Things Happen To Good People and Raising the Sparks: Humanity’s Role in Healing a Broken Cosmos. 

Rabbi Kamesar serves as Rabbinic Liaison and is a member of the Steering Committee of Center City Kehillah, a network of communities representing the diversity of Jewish life in urban Philadelphia, and is a member of the Policy Board of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia. He also recently completed a term of service as Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association Representative to the RRC Admissions Committee. 

Before rabbinical school, Rabbi Kamesar was an attorney at the law firm, Skadden Arps. He earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010. Prior to law school, Nathan served two years with AmeriCorps*VISTA in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Rabbi Kamesar is a proud Oregon Duck having graduated magna cum laude from the University of Oregon in 2004 with a degree in Economics. He and his wife Caroline both grew up in the Philadelphia area and reside in Center City with their daughters, Lila and Nina. He loves reading, basketball, music, tv, and life. 

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