Rabbi Ethan Linden is currently Director of Educational Operations and Design for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Prior to joining Hartman, he was Director of Ramah Berkshires. His previous pulpit experience was as Rabbi of Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation in Metairie, Louisiana from 2009 to 2016. While serving that congregation, he was an adjunct professor of Bible at Tulane University. He received rabbinic ordination from JTS in 2007, where he was the recipient of the Rabbi Sidney Greenberg Prize for Homiletics, and also the David Scharps Memorial Prize in Talmud. He received a B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1999, where he graduated Magna Cum and Phi Beta Kappa.