Rabbi Jeffrey Goldwasser

Rabbi Jeffrey W. Goldwasser has served as the spiritual leader of Temple Sinai since 2014. He chairs the Rhode Island Interfaith Coalition to Reduce Poverty and has played a central role in organizing the state's faith community in anti-poverty activism. Rabbi Goldwasser is the Vice President of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island. He serves on the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island.

In 2011, he received the Reform Movement's Fain Award for Social Action. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Jewish Alliance's Tilles Award for service, leadership and commitment to Jewish community relations. In 2025, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for his leadership in sustaining the Jewish community.

He has previously served congregations in North Adams, Massachusetts, and Stuart, Florida. Rabbi Goldwasser and his wife, Jonquil Wolfson, are the parents of two adult daughters, Talia and Eliana.