Experience You Can Count On
Dale Glasser has had the privilege of spending more than three decades as a non-profit professional and volunteer. Dale is a man of eternal hope and optimism, as evidenced by his ongoing belief in the New York Mets.
Dale has served as Senior Director, Consulting and Community Development for the Jewish Federations of North America, a Jewish Big Brothers case worker, JCC executive, congregational executive director, and, for 16 years, worked to enhance congregational life in communities throughout the United States and Canada as the senior management consultant to the nearly 900 congregations of the Union for Reform Judaism. He has spoken at congregations and Jewish communal gatherings throughout North America, all four campuses of Hebrew Union College, and written and edited numerous publications including The Temple Management Manual, Managing the Sacred: A Guide for Synagogue Board Members, and Making A Difference: The URJ Presidents’ Manual.
Dale served as an ex officio board member of the National Association for Temple Administration (NATA) and a keynote speaker and trainer at many of their national conferences and board meetings. He is also the co-founder and for 15 years served as lead faculty of the URJ Scheidt Seminar, where during his tenure, over 1100 congregational presidents and presidents-elect were part of a 4 day learning experience.
Among Dale’s current and recent projects are serving as adjunct faculty at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion teaching Organizational Development, participating as a member of the Gender Equity Advocates Network and, providing facilitation and mentoring as a member of the UJA-Federation of New York Coaching Network.
Dale has also fulfilled many volunteer roles including serving as a federation board member, a congregational president and co-chair of the HUC-JIR School of Jewish Communal Service alumni association. He is a member of Woodlands Community Temple in Greenburgh, New York, and the co-founder and co-facilitator of their Derekh leadership development program, which since 1999 has equipped congregants with Jewishly based leadership skills as they move into Temple governance roles.
Dale holds Masters Degrees in Counseling, Social Work, and Jewish Communal Service and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
He is the proud parent of two brilliant and engaging adults: his daughter, a cum laude graduate of NYU, is a rabbi currently serving a congregation in Florida, and his son, a phi beta kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary, engaged in creating a positive work culture at an internet start up company.