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Rabbi Yair Robinson
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Yair Dan Robinson has served Shir Ami since 2003. A STAR PEER fellow, graduate of Oberlin College and Hebrew Union College, Yair was born to Rabbi Harold and Miriam Robinson and raised in Hyannis, Massachusetts, along with his sister Dori. He was active in Jewish Youth Group and Camping, and in congregational leadership. It was learning from his father and watching him in his vocation—caring for the sick and the sick of heart, teaching text and tradition to the young and the experienced, and bringing a love of Judaism into everything he did—that he developed his love of, and his own calling to, the rabbinate; his love of study, of text, of Jewish lives and Jewish living.
While a student at HUC, he served as student-rabbi of Columbus Hebrew Congregation and Temple Beth El of Muncie, Indiana, and as rabbinic intern at KK Bene Israel/Rockdale Temple in Cincinnati, OH. Yair received his MAHL in 2002 and his rabbinic ordination in 2003, writing his rabbinic thesis on ancient and modern forms of creative liturgy. He has served on multiple panels, projects and committees, and has twice presented at URJ biennial. He takes a special interest in teaching, HaGesher, Shir Ami’s 20s/30s Chavurah, and in Shir Ami’s Synaplex program and the Call Synagogue Home Outreach project.
He is married to Marisa, his college sweetheart, and they have a son, Elishai, who brings them much joy. In addition to his work, he enjoys writing (especially poetry) and reading, theater, fencing, science fiction and fantasy literature, (bad) cinema, art, classical, jazz and alternative rock music, Japanese aesthetics and interior design, and other eclectic pursuits.
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