Rabbi and Clinical Psychologist, Jack H Bloom, Ph.D. is one of a handful of rabbis who is a full member of both The Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), and The Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative).

Dr. Bloom has become known as a rabbi’s rabbi. In addition to his private practice at The Psychotherapy Center in Fairfield, Connecticut, Dr. Bloom serves as Director of Professional Career Review for his Reform colleagues, for whom he created a program to assist rabbis seeking to shape their futures. Working closely with Conservative rabbis, he mentors and teaches regularly at the Rabbinic Training Institutes sponsored, by his alma mater, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Dr. Bloom earned a BA at Columbia College, a BHL, MHL and rabbinical ordination at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. For ten years he was rabbi of Congregation Beth El, Fairfield, Connecticut, during which time he completed a STM in Pastoral Counseling from New York Theological Seminary. Dr. Bloom earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia. Dr. Bloom’s dissertation “The Pulpit Rabbi as Symbolic Exemplar” was the first of his extensive writings on “what it’s like to be a rabbi”.

In 2001 an honorary doctorate was awarded to Dr. Bloom

“in recognition of the enormous contribution you have made to improving the personal and professional lives of Conservative and Reform rabbis. You have placed a concern for colleagues at the center of your professional life. Your love and respect for the work of your colleagues has made you the quintessential rabbi for rabbis”.

Dr. Bloom and his wife Ingrid, a gifted artist and retired German teacher, reside in Fairfield, Connecticut. They are the parents of four children and grandparents of seven.