Hi! I grew up in San Diego, California, a place where rainfall makes the headline news, as a Reform Jew while attending a pluralistic Jewish day school. At around the age of 12 I became very dissatisfied with Judaism and religion in general, as I understood them, and started attending Humanistic Society meetings and ran my own Humanistic Society Bulletin Board System, before the days of the Internet.

At around the same time, my parents decided that I needed to have a Bar Mitzvah and I responded to them, "no way!" If I didn't believe in Judaism or, for that matter, being inside large institutional synagogues, then why would I have a Bar Mitzvah? In any case, my parents convinced me to give Judaism another shot. So I went around to all the synagogues in San Diego: Reform, Conservative, Humanistic, Reconstructionist, and then finally, Orthodox. I hesitated about going to the Orthodox synagogue because of all the stereotypes I had grown up with regarding Orthodox Judaism and Orthodox Jews. Yet, it was within the confines of that small synagogue housed in an office complex, with books piling up everywhere the eye could see, that a deep love was ignited within my soul for Judaism.

I moved to New York a few weeks before 9/11 to begin college in a small Jewish liberal arts school in Flushing, Queens. The night that I spent outside, in the pouring rain, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Lower Manhattan, organizing supplies for rescue workers, first demonstrated to me the unbreakable bond between serving others and being a practicing Jew. I graduated in 2005 with a B.A. in Psychology and packed my bags to move to Washington Heights, a diverse and eclectic neighborhood in upper Manhattan, to begin my studies as a rabbinical student at YCT Rabbinical School.

While at YCT I was exposed to the breadth and depth of Jewish learning and engagement. I was privileged to learn from some of the most profound Jewish thinkers around today and developed real friendships with the ten other students in my graduating class. During my time at YCT I interned at two labor unions, organized a relief mission to California after the 2007 wildfires, traveled to Biloxi, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina to help rebuild houses, served as a chaplain in a neuroscience intensive care center, and learned, prayed and celebrated with people in New York, New Jersey, California, Louisiana, Quebec, Connecticut and Illinois.

I am absolutely thrilled (people who know me know that I would say I think it is "amaaaaazing!") to be serving as the Orthodox rabbinic advisor and Co-director of The Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Harvard Hillel. What do I do in my job? I am privileged to get to study, sing, dine and schmooze about any topic in which you are interested. Whether you want to learn Talmud or about the place for doubt in Judaism or just want to talk about an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," I am available and would love to hear from you!

You can find me on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/rabbigreenberg ) and you can also become a fan of The Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Harvard Hillel on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/HarvardTorah). If you want to know what we're up to at any random moment, you can follow us on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/HarvardJLIC). You can always find out when the next learning opportunity, party, or social action project is occurring by visiting our Web site at www.HarvardTorah.info.

I really want to hear from you, so please call, send a message on Facebook, tweet, or e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you! Judaism has been around for a very long time, and in that time has suggested some approaches (and there is always more than one approach: remember two Jews and three opinions!) to some of the biggest questions we face in life, and I hope that together we can explore what Judaism has to offer. Who knows? You might be pleasantly surprised.