Rabbi Marc Soloway

Marc has served as the rabbi of Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, Colorado since 2004.  He has always loved food, perhaps a little too much, and in recent years has thought more deeply about where this food comes from, how it is produced and how all of that fits with deep Jewish obligations and values.  Marc has ridden twice in the Hazon-Arava Institute Israel Ride in 2008 and 2010.  Marc co-chaired two Hazon Food Conferences on the west coast in 2010 and 2011, he is on the Hazon Steering Team in Colorado as well as the Jewish Life team for the Rocky Mountain Jewish Food Summit in April 2012.  Marc was instrumental in bringing Boulder’s first Jewish CSA through Hazon, which is now a collaboration of five synagogues and the JCC with two weekly drop-off sites.  Marc is also a proud member of a Jewish goat and chicken co-op across the street from his synagogue

Marc was very active with the Limmud Conference in the UK, serving as co-chair in 1996 and 1997 and he was a founding board member of Limmud Colorado in 2008, which has informed his work with Hazon.

Last summer, Marc was in Ghana as part of the second AJWS Rabbinic Delegation, volunteering with a grantee in the south.  This year Marc is a fellow of the Rabbis without Borders program with CLAL and he is also graduate of the 5th Rabbinic Cohort of the Institute of Jewish Spirituality.  Before becoming a rabbi, Marc was an actor, storyteller and massage therapist in his native London and currently is the narrator of a brand new documentary film about the Baal Shem Tov due to be released later this year.