Rabbi Seth Nadel is the Rabbi of Young Israel of West Hartford. Before joining the community, he was Associate Rabbi at Beth Israel Synagogue, Omaha Nebraska, and Orthodox congregation with over 150 member families. Rabbi Nadel hails from New Jersey where he spent almost a decade serving the Jewish community as an educator. He taught at Hebrew High Schools and Congregational Schools throughout New York and New Jersey and taught Special Education at a Yeshivah High School for boys. “Reb Seth,” as his students affectionately refer to him, received several awards recognizing excellence in teaching. He served as a Youth Director at Congregation Tifereth Israel, Passaic, NJ and ran Shabbatonim for High School Jewish Youth for several Jewish organizations. In 2006, Rabbi Nadel was certified by the New York Organ Donors Society and the Halachik Organ Donors Society as a rabbinic consultant on issues related to end of life and organ donation. He has served as scholar in residence for communities across the country and has almost a thousand readers of his weekly e-mail divrei Torah.

Rabbi Nadel is also an accomplished musician and songwriter. He has toured nationally as a solo act and along with his band inspiring Jewish communities across North America. In 2004, he released the CD , One Thing I Ask, a high-energy hybrid of rock, pop, folk, and blues. Critics have called his music, “passionate rock and roll for the soul.”