Join the Team

We’re searching for visionary leaders looking to be a part of a new model of Jewish life at home. This is an exciting, fast-paced, demanding, and rewarding career. Base and Moishe House invest in coaching, skill-building, and entrepreneurial training to build the best team who will transform how young people experience Jewish life.

Open Positions

  • Associate Director

    We’re on the hunt for an Associate Director to be an integral member of our national team’s work to grow the field of entrepreneurial spiritual leadership. This is an opportunity for a relational and creative professional to support the growing demand for inspiring, pluralistic rabbinic leadership.

    Learn more about the position & apply!

  • Operations Manager

    Are you a logistics maven / data analyst / expert executor? Do you get excited by numbers and the stories they tell? This is an opportunity for a professional who knows how to translate data and analytics into compelling narratives to build support and capacity.

    Learn more about what you'll do!

  • Based-In Rabbi

    Location Flexible

    We're looking for an entrepreneurial rabbi looking to devote up to 15 hours a week on building relationships and engaging young adults using our signature model of rabbinic leadership.

    Learn more about our work & apply!

What’s this work all about?

Base is the home of a rabbinic family. A home base for young adults and their friends. A Jewish, pluralistic, hospitable home of learning and service.

We know that people in their 20s and 30s are seeking a Jewish life of relevance, purpose, and meaning. That life of meaning is built first from personal relationships, not from products or programs.

We accomplish this sacred work by growing and strengthening an emerging group of rabbinic couples called to open their homes and lives to host, teach, serve, and guide their community. Our vision is a world fuelled by the joy of radical hospitality where young Jews feel closer to themselves, each other, Torah, and community – Jewish and beyond.

Who’s a
Base rabbi?

While Base Rabbis are ordained by a wide variety of institutions, Base does not ascribe to any particular denomination. Base Rabbis are pluralistic Rabbis serving a wide variety of Jews and their friends and partners. We seek to hire a diverse set of teams that reflect a diversity of Jewish thought and practice.

Ideal Base Rabbis will be within 0-5 years of receiving ordination (semikha). One of the most powerful elements of the Base model is giving young Jews an opportunity to form a relationship with a relatable Rabbi who can empathize with their life stage. We seek candidates who are eager to learn, grow, and envision a new way to build a rabbinate.

What’s it like Working at Moishe House?

As a Base Rabbi or Base Partner, you become part of the Moishe House family. Base Rabbis are full-time employees working most closely with the national Base team and reporting to the Director, Base Programming or Associate Director.

As a part of the wider Moishe House team, Base teams receive operational and marketing support, and as a part of the national Base team, they receive a wide variety of support including but not limited to: professional development, ongoing programmatic support, annual all-team in-person convening, bi-monthly virtual gatherings, and cohort development, ongoing training, annual evaluation and research, and spiritual growth support.

Who is the Base Partner and what’s their role?

Each full-time Base is built around a dynamic, committed couple who work together in partnership and are energized to open up their home in service of creating meaningful connections and community.

Base Partners come from a wide variety of backgrounds and professional fields, and most have another full-time job.

Base Partners are expected to be an enthusiastic co-host, helping with the planning and preparation of events and gatherings, and, to the extent they want to offer formal programming, we welcome their Jewish (and other) expertise!

Base Partners work on average 15 hours and also report to the Director, Base Programming.

How long is tenure?

Base teams are expected to complete at least a three-year term, with the option to renew for a second three-year term, contingent upon performance and available funding. We view the Base “job” as a premiere post-ordination (semikha) opportunity for real-world experience in an entrepreneurial rabbinate. Moishe House is an at-will employer and does not offer employment contracts.

What about compensation?

Full-time Base Rabbis are paid a competitive salary and benefits, and are provided with a significant housing stipend, a program budget, professional development, access to parsonage tax benefits, paid time off, and quarterly paid days for community service.

Partners of Full-Time Base rabbis receive compensation in the form of a $20,000 per year honorarium, but are not considered employees of Moishe House.

Some additional FAQs

  • Base is staffed as a full-time program led by a rabbi and their partners out of a home they share together.

    Based-In is staffed as a part-time program led by a rabbi or rabbinical student in addition to their other full-time commitments outside of Moishe House. Based-In enables rabbis with non-congregational full-time jobs (e.g. Day School educators, professors, chaplains, or nonprofit professionals), to invest up to 15 hours of work per week in service of local young adults.

    The vision of Base and Based-In are identical: renewing belonging, purpose, and joy in the next generation of young Jews through pluralistic rabbis who open their homes to host, model, teach, serve, and guide their community.

  • No, Base is a full-time job.

  • Base Rabbis and their partners are expected to find their own housing and sign their own lease. Each Base team is provided with a housing stipend, allowing them to rent a home or apartment with enough space that can accommodate frequent hosting. These payments are taxed, but Rabbis are also able to declare parsonage on the entirety of their housing expenses.

    Moishe House will provide information regarding employment and supplemental housing support. The national Base team will advise on the ideal area and neighborhoods, as well as requirements for hosting spaces (e.g. can seat 20-30 people, outdoor space, etc.)

  • We love when Basers feel close enough to their Rabbi to ask them to serve in personal life transitions. In fact, we have a guide on the spectrum of services and recommend associated fees that Base Rabbis can use to assist in these conversations. Any life-cycle fee-for-service work administered for a Baser, is paid directly to Base.

  • All new Bases have a national: local 50:50 funding model. Meaning, we at Moishe House, work to raise 50% of the funds from national funders, and 50% from local funders. Additionally, we believe that as entrepreneurial and communal Rabbis, Base Rabbis should be given the opportunity to learn the basics of fundraising.

    With support, coaching, and operations assistance from the national Base team, Base Rabbis will learn how to execute an annual fundraising campaign for their community. Between life-cycle fee-for-service work, and this annual fundraising campaign, Base Rabbis will help secure at least $10,000 annually towards their program budget.

  • While we deeply believe single Rabbis can and should do this type of work, Base at its core, is a partnership model, giving Basers the opportunity to reflect on what it takes to build a shared home and practice. Our Partners bring valuable alternative and complementary perspectives to every conversation, program, and experience, enriching the overall Base environment and modeling constructive disagreement and the natural and inevitable differences in spiritual or religious practice.

Ready to join our sacred work?