Reuven Travis

Rabbi Reuven Travis spent fifteen years as an advertising and marketing executive working for large Fortune 500 firms such as Georgia-Pacific and Ogilvy & Mather and as a consultant. He developed strategic business and marketing plans for a variety of consumer packaged goods and financial services companies. Twenty years ago, Rabbi Travis changed professions and started his career as an educator. In that time, he has taught a wide range of classes, including Jewish law, Bible, Jewish history, Zionism and the Holocaust, Israel advocacy, American history and civics, and African-American history.

Rabbi Travis earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, with a double major in French literature and political science. He holds a master’s degree in teaching from Mercer University and also earned a master’s in Judaic studies from Spertus College. He received his rabbinic ordination in 2006 from Rabbi Michael J. Broyde, dean of the Atlanta Torah MiTzion Kollel, after spending four years studying with Rabbi Broyde and the members of the kollel.

Rabbi Travis has published studies of the book of Job (From Job to the Shoah: A Story of Dust and Ashes) and of the book of Numbers (Sefer BeMidbar as Sefer HaMiddot: The Book of Numbers as the Book of Character Development). His latest book, a study of the book of Genesis he co-authored with Michael J. Broyde, entitled Sex in the Garden: Consensual Relations Gone Bad, will be released by WIPF & Stock in the fall of 2019.