Rabbi Dr. Robert T. Jury

Rabbi, cantor, educator, chaplain, and scholar integrating Jewish life, spiritual care, counselor education, and higher education.

Across universities, healthcare systems, congregations, and professional organizations, Rob Jury develops leaders, advances scholarship, and fosters religious and spiritual life through teaching, mentorship, clinical practice, and Jewish leadership.

Rob Jury is a rabbi, educator, chaplain, counselor, researcher, and pastoral leader whose work integrates Jewish leadership, counselor education, clinical practice, and higher education. His teaching, scholarship, and supervision focus on meaning-making, spiritually integrated care, addiction recovery, and the formation of reflective, culturally responsive counselors, chaplains, and other helping professionals.

A recurring thread in his work is the use of Jewish texts, liturgy, and interpretive traditions as living resources for learning, care, and human growth. Drawing on experience in congregational leadership, chaplaincy, counseling, and higher education, he works across academic, clinical, and communal settings with a commitment to intellectual seriousness, relational presence, and ethical care. A central part of his work is mentoring students and emerging professionals through teaching, advising, supervision, and reflective formation. This work extends across university, congregational, and clinical settings and includes long experience accompanying students and emerging adults through learning, identity development, recovery, and vocational formation.

This site offers an overview of his work in Jewish leadership, teaching, scholarship, spiritual care, counseling, and clinical practice, along with selected publications, media, and professional resources.