Gabe Kletzmer Seed

Mapping Jewish Chaplaincy Strategic Planning Group

Rabbi Gabe Kretzmer Seed serves as a Jewish chaplain in the New York City Department of Correction where he provides religious services, classes and spiritual support primarily for Jewish inmates as well as for staff and inmates of all religions; he also serves as a gabbai for his shul, The Riverdale Minyan in The Bronx, NY.  He was recently named one of the New York Jewish Week 36 Under 36, a list of individuals making a difference in the New York Jewish Community for his work in the jails during the pandemic. Rabbi Kretzmer Seed is a graduate of Columbia University where he majored in United States History. He also received BA and MA degrees from The Jewish Theological Seminary – JTS where he focused on Talmud and Midrash, and Jewish education. He interned at The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York and Bais Abraham Congregation in St. Louis, MO. He is the co-founder of the Zemirot Database, an editable online database for zemirot, liturgy, and other Jewish songs. After receiving semikha from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in 2017, Rabbi Kretzmer Seed completed a chaplaincy residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan, where he worked in the hospital’s palliative care, oncology and psychiatric units.

 

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