Rabbi Micah Peltz came to Temple Beth Sholom in 2007 as the assistant rabbi and became senior rabbi in 2014. He is also a fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative and a member of the Conservative Movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, where he co-chairs the Personal Status Subcommittee. His teshuvot for CJLS include The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccination, Discarding Large Quantities of Holy Books, When Should a Person Come off the Communal Prayer List?, and a co-authored dissenting opinion on eating kitniyot on Passover. Rabbi Peltz is a member of the Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine Community Advisory Board, the Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice Sukkat Shalom Jewish Advisory Committee, and the Cherry Hill Religious Leaders Council. He is a past member of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the Masorti Movement, the board of Camp Ramah in the Poconos, and the New Jersey State Commission on Holocaust Education. Rabbi Peltz also served as president of both the Tri-County Board of Jewish Clergy and the Philadelphia Region of the Rabbinical Assembly. He was a regular contributor to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz’s Rabbis’ Roundtable and has been published in the journal Conservative Judaism. Rabbi Peltz was also voted one of America’s Real Top Rabbis in 2012 on the website www.myjewishlearning.com.

Rabbi Peltz grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From a young age, he enjoyed being active in the Jewish community. He was president of Emtza Region USY and chair of the Governing Board at the University of Michigan Hillel, and he spent 11 summers at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin as a camper, counselor, and rosh edah, unit leader. While a student at JTS, he was the recipient of the Crown Fellowship and interned at Rutgers University Hillel, Temple Beth Sholom in Roslyn, NY, and the Park Avenue Synagogue. He also spent a summer as a chaplain at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. Additionally, Rabbi Peltz received the Lamport Homiletics Prize at graduation.

He is married to Rachel Zivic, who is the Head of School at Kellman Brown Academy. They have three children: Yael, Ari, and Ilan. True to his roots, he is still an avid Minnesota and University of Michigan sports fan.