As campus rabbi, Alex provides leadership, pastoral care, and intellectual and spiritual sustenance for the Yale Jewish community at large, and as co-director of JLIC at Yale he sees to the continued flourishing of observant Jewish life at Yale. He earned his PhD in philosophy and religious studies right here at Yale, with a focus on prophetic witness and the how-to’s of pursuing justice in an often-indifferent world. He lives here in New Haven with his wife (and JLIC co-director!) Lauren Steinberg and their three kiddos, Noam Zev, Aviva, and Ruthie. Alex and Lauren have been the JLIC couple at Yale since they joined us in Summer 2018.

Rabbi Alex Ozar grew up in St. Louis, MO. A fourth generation Missourian on both sides, he left home to spend two blissful years studying in Israel at Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh and then returned stateside to attend Yeshiva University, where he received his BA, MA and Semikha. Alex has worked for First Things magazine, as a Tikvah Fellow, and as a gemara teacher at Bi-Cultural Day School in Stamford, CT. In his spare time, he enjoys rocking out with the acclaimed band Three Rabbis and a Cik, exploring the outdoors, and solving the cosmos’ problems with friends and family.