Rabbi Marc Israel has served as the spiritual leader of Tikvat Israel in Rockville, MD since June 2019. He previously served as associate rabbi of Temple Beth Hillel–Beth El in the Philadelphia suburb of Wynnewood for 6 years and was the rabbi educator at Ohr Kodesh Congregation in Chevy Chase, MD for eight years. Prior to his congregational work, Rabbi Israel was the director of Kesher, the Reform Movement’s college outreach program, and served as the Director of Congregational Relations at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Rabbi Israel graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1992. He earned his rabbinic ordination in 1998 from the Hebrew Union College’s Jewish Institute of Religion, and he joined the Conservative Movement’s Rabbinical Assembly in 2007. He also served as “Rosh Ropes” at Camp Ramah in New England for 16 years. Rabbi Israel is married to Abbey Frank and they have three adult children.