Ammiel Hirsch

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch
Position	Senior Rabbi
Synagogue	Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Other	Former Executive Director, Association of Reform Zionists of America/World Union for Progressive Judaism, North America
Personal details
Birth name	Ammiel Hirsch
Born	1959
Nationality	United States
Denomination	Reform Judaism
Residence	New York City
Parents	Rabbi Richard G. and Bella Hirsch
Alma mater	London School of Economics and Political Science
Semicha	Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Ammiel Hirsch (Hebrew: עמיאל הירש‎‎, also spelled Amiel Hirsch) (born 1959) is a Reform Jewish rabbi and a bar-certified lawyer in New York. He is the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and former Executive Director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America/World Union for Progressive Judaism, North America. In 2016, City & State New York magazine praised him as "the borough's most influential voice" for Manhattan's more than 300,000 Jews, and in 2015, the New York Observer named him among “New York’s Most Influential Religious Leaders.”

He was born in the United States to Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch (born 1926) a Reform rabbi who founded that movement's Religious Action Center in Washington, D.C. and is Executive Director Emeritus of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. His mother is Bella Hirsch; he has two brothers and a sister.

Hirsch spent his high school years in Israel, serving in the IDF as a tank commander. He speaks fluent Hebrew. He went on to earn an LL.B Honors law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and became a member of the New York State Bar in 1985. He received rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, in 1989.

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