Rabbi Faith Joy Dantowitz (she/her) is honored to be Congregation Emeth’s Rabbi since 2020. Building relationships is an integral part of her rabbinate. She is passionate about social justice, pastoral care, teaching children and adults, leading services and finding joy.

A New Jersey native, she grew up in a Reform Jewish household and loved being Jewish. Before pursuing the rabbinate, she followed her math and science interests to explore engineering which made it even clearer the rabbinate was her path.

She previously served as Associate Rabbi at Temple B’nai Abraham in Livingston, NJ from 2010-2020. From 2004-2010, she was the Regional Director of Admissions and Recruitment at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in NY. Her first rabbinic position was as a rabbi at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, NJ, 1993-2004. Rabbi Dantowitz was ordained from HUC-JIR in 1993 (NY). She graduated from University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering and Applied Science in 1987 with a B.A.S. in Systems Engineering.

Rabbi Dantowitz is honored to serve on the Executive Board of the Northern California Board of Rabbis which represents and supports rabbis from across the denominations. She is also a longtime member and current Secretary of the Women’s Rabbinic Network (WRN). WRN has consistently worked to promote the personal and professional growth of female identifying rabbis and rabbinic students within the Reform Movement.. She is part of the Interfaith Clergy Alliance of Morgan Hill/Gilroy and served as facilitator. She represents CRAGSJ (Cantors and Rabbis of Greater San Jose) on the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of the Bay Area’s Advisory Council.

She is a global justice fellow with American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and traveled to Guatemala with them in 2015. Rabbi Dantowitz is a Balfour Brickner Fellow and a JOIN for Justice Rabbinic Fellow. She is a chaver with T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. She is a Hevraya member of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality (IJS).

In 2018, she received her honorary Doctor of Divinity from HUC-JIR for 25 years in the rabbinate. She is married to David Dantowitz and they have four adult sons: Ezra, Benjamin, Samuel, and Daniel, and a dog, Lily Rose. She loves hiking at the Pacific Coast and in the Redwood Forests, reading, musical theater, and ice cream.