Introducing the Voice’s ‘Q&A column’ and Rabbi Jablow

With this issue, The Jewish Voice is inaugurating a column designed to give insight into our community leaders. Rabbi Steven Jablow is the first Jewish leader featured in our “Q&A column.” 

Rabbi Jablow has been Hillel’s executive director and Jewish chaplain for seven years, and has recently become a full-time faculty member at the university.

Born and raised in Belmont, Massachusetts, Jablow has been a Jewish educator, including for 20 years at the Jewish Community Day School in Providence, as well as a curriculum writer, program director and administrator. 

After three decades in education, Jablow achieved his lifelong goal to become a rabbi, entering the rabbinate after completing his studies at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, in Newton, Massachusetts.

Recently, Bryant’s president, Ronald K. Machtley, and Jablow announced an initiative to grow Jewish life and culture on campus, increase Jewish enrollment and offer more Jewish-focused classes (see accompanying story on this page). Jablow teaches Bryant’s first Jewish studies course, Philosophy of Religion: Judaism.

Rabbi Jablow, 57, lives on the East Side of Providence. He is married with three adult children.

SAM SERBY of East Greenwich, attended Temple Sinai. He is a recent graduate of Johnson & Wales University.