Bio

Rabbi Melinda Mersack was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2000. Rabbi Mersack is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow, a network of rabbis spanning denominations and viewpoints whose goal is to develop and communicate a Judaism that speaks to contemporary American issues, and a Brickner Fellow, 2014-2015 cohort, a program through the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism that supports rabbis in expressing Jewish values through social justice work.  

Rabbi Mersack is the immediate past president of the Greater Cleveland Board of Rabbis and serves on faculty annually at Goldman Union Camp Institute, the regional Union of Reform Judaism overnight camp.  

Prior to becoming the Director of jHUB, Rabbi Mersack served as a rabbi at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple.  She is a past president of Gross Schechter Day School and of Interreligious Partners in Action of Greater Cleveland (InterAct Cleveland).  Melinda holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Masters of Hebrew Letters and ordination from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion.  She is married to Mark Jacobs and is the proud mother of three boys.