Meet Our Rabbi

Rabbi Steve Segar is spiritual leader of Kol HaLev, Cleveland’s Reconstructionist Jewish Community. A 1995 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Rabbi Steve originally came to Cleveland as Director of Spiritual Life at the Agnon School, a pluralistic Jewish day school. While in that position, he served as part-time rabbi at Kol HaLev, and in 2000 was hired to fill what would become the congregation’s first full time rabbinical position.

More recently, Rabbi Steve earned a Master’s degree in Positive Organizational Development and Change from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He is involved with interfaith relations in the Cleveland area, and served on the board of Interact-Cleveland, an interfaith social group that promoted dialogue between faiths and service to less fortunate populations. He is also on the core team that represents Kol HaLev to the Greater Cleveland Congregations, a non-partisan coalition of faith communities and partner organizations in Cuyahoga County working together to build power for social justice. A frequent speaker at area churches, Rabbi Steve has served as scholar-in-residence on contemporary thought and practice for a number of organizations. He and his wife, Andy Getz, have three sons, Gabriel, Caleb and Zachary.

Rabbi Steve's High Holy Days Sermons:

Yom Kippur Sermon 5776

Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5776

Jews and Life after Death - Yom Kippur 5775

Balancing the Prophetic and the Tribal - Rosh Hashanah 5775

A Polarity: Human Limitation and Communal Aspiration - Yom Kippur 5774

Reconstructionism, Tradition, and the Torah - Rosh Hashanah 5774

Common Ground - Yom Kippur 5773

Jewish Values and the Politics of Civility - Rosh Hashanah 5773

Go and Study — Yom Kippur 5772

The 10th Anniversary of September 11th
and Our Deep Interdependence — Rosh Hashanah 5772

Searching for God in the 21st Century — Yom Kippur 5771