Rabbi Karen Perolman

Rabbi Karen Glazer Perolman is the Senior Associate Rabbi at Temple B'nai Jeshurun, where she has worked since 2008. She was ordained by HUC-JIR in 2010. While in Rabbinical school, Rabbi Perolman worked as an educator at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Manhattan and was the Rabbinic Intern at Columbia/Barnard Hillel. She credits her involvement with NFTY and URJ Camp Harlam with her desire to pursue the rabbinate, including a pivotal summer traveling with the NFTY in Israel program. These youth experiences nurtured a deep love of Reform Judaism, social justice and Zionism. The daughter of a career Army Judge Advocate, Rabbi Perolman was born in Bremerhaven, Germany, and lived in cities throughout the U.S. until her family settled in Ellicott City, Maryland. She is a voracious reader, which fuels her passion to understand the relationships between art, spirituality, politics, Judaism, feminism, and social justice. Rabbi Perolman is the co-founder of Modern Jewess, a gift for Jewish women (subscribe at: modern-jewess.com). Her most recent writing was published in The Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma (CCAR, 2025). She is married to lawyer-turned-comedian Liz Glazer, and they are the proud parents of Eloise.