Career
Rosen is a native of Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Rosen is the Midwest Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee. In August 2015, he founded Tzedek Chicago, a new "non-Zionist" synagogue in Chicago. Rosen previously served as the rabbi of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Illinois from 1998 to 2014.
In 2009, he co-founded the Jewish Fast for Gaza, or Ta"anit Tzedek with Rabbi Brian Walt.
Rosen is also an active environmentalist. Under his leadership, the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation built their new building with an environmentally sustainable design in 2008, becoming the first house of worship to ever receive a Platinum rating by the United States. Green Building Council.
He was the recipient of Chicago Magazine’s Green Award for his environmental leadership in 2009.
