![]() Prior to becoming a rabbi, she worked as the Educational Director for “Up With People” an international organization best known for performing arts, community service and global education. She attended rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City where she was ordained in 2004. Rabbi Dana Saroken is a Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Arizona’s Honors Program with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and Jewish Studies. Click HERE to read Rabbi Schwartz's blog. Known for his love of the music of the Grateful Dead, Rabbi Schwartz resides in Owings Mills, his late wife was Rebecca Schwartz Z"L. He has three children: Talia, Joshua, and Merav. Rabbi Schwartz has proudly continued on the path of his predecessors Rabbi Mark Loeb and Rabbi Jacob Agus, and is committed to building a progressive, open, and pluralistic Jewish community where all are welcome. Rabbi Schwartz also is a past president of the Baltimore Board of Rabbis, and an emeritus trustee of the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies. ![]() He is a member of the Executive Council of the Rabbinical Assembly, and is the community member at large of the Johns Hopkins Homewood Institutional Review Board. Along with his service to Beth El Rabbi Schwartz is active and engaged in the community, sitting on the Boards of Directors of the Associated, the Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund, and the Baltimore Jewish Council where he serves as an officer. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1998, Rabbi Schwartz is a graduate of Brandeis University, and also holds a Masters degree from the University of Maryland in the field of Psychology. Upon the retirement of Rabbi Mark Loeb in 2008 Rabbi Schwartz became the congregation’s third Senior Rabbi, now occupying the Rabbi Mark Loeb Senior Rabbi’s Chair, endowed by the Herbert Bearman Foundation. Rabbi Steven Schwartz joined the Beth El community in 1998 when he began his service to the congregation as its Assistant Rabbi. The Rabbi Mark Loeb Senior Rabbi’s Chair, Endowed by the Herbert Bearman Foundation
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