Rabbi Herbert Bronstein (b. 1930 Cincinnati, Ohio) is Rabbi Emeritus/Senior Scholar of North Shore Congregation Israel, Glencoe, Illinois. Rabbi Bronstein served our congregation as Senior Rabbi for a quarter of a century (1972-1997). From 1957, upon ordination from the Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati Ohio) to 1972 he served at the historic Temple B’rith Kodesh, Rochester, New York first as Assistant, then Associate and then Co-Rabbi.

Now serving as our Senior Scholar, Rabbi Bronstein is a Lecturer at Lake Forest College in History of Religions. He has combined a successful vocation as a congregational rabbi and community leader with life-long achievements in scholarships, academic teaching; lecturing widely and writing particularly in the fields of religious thought and literature, as well as liturgy both as a scholar of liturgy and liturgist. Recipient of many honors, he was named, in the Year 2000, as Alumnus of the Year by McMicken College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Cincinnati. During his tenure as chairman of the Reform Jewish Liturgy Committee 1981 – 1991 (responsible for the publication of prayer books of Reform Judaism. During his tenure the committee published the best selling Haggadah for Passover of which he was the editor, as well as Gates of Prayer, the Five Scrolls, and other worship liturgies.