For more than 15 years, Rabbi Tyson Herberger has been a global leader across congregational, academic, and interreligious sectors, specializing in fostering pluralistic "Big Tent" environments that balance halachic integrity with deep inclusivity for queer, patrilineal, and intermarried families.

His core rabbinic competencies lie in ritual leadership (davening and leyning), officiating life cycle events, leading adult and youth outreach and education, supporting those wanting to convert to Judaism, engaging in deep personal relationships, plumbing the depts of Halakha, ensuring LGBTQ+ inclusion, conducting interreligious dialogue, using digital technologies, and goal setting and planning.

Rabbi Tyson holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in Jewish Education from Hebrew College. He has pursued advanced textual studies across a broad spectrum of yeshivot, including the Conservative Yeshiva and Pardes.  His thesis is on Diversifying Constructs of Norwegian Jewries, and he expects to complete his PhD in Religious Education this fall.

His pulpit career includes serving as the Chief Rabbi of Lower Silesia (Poland) and as rabbi of Warsaw’s historic Nożyk Synagogue. In both roles, he successfully oversaw the full array of communal life in multi-generational communities with varying levels of Jewish literacy and observance and where many congregants were not halakhically Jewish. Highlights of his rabbinic work include creating Torah Trek (a hiking and learning retreat for adults), supporting dozens of conversions, speaking at Pride festivals, and advancing interreligious dialogue.

Rabbi Tyson comes to South Bend after serving as Associate Professor of Religion and Religious Education at the University of Southeastern Norway, where he earned a reputation as a passionate teacher and bridge-builder who treats communal diversity and intellectual disagreement not as challenges, but as vital resources for enriching modern Jewish life.

In his free time, he enjoys discussing Torah (and to him, everything is Torah!), reading, hiking, sipping a whisky or coffee, and playing board games. Together with his wife Rebekka (an Oxford University alumna in Jewish studies), he is the proud father of Eliana (10) and Hillel (6), all of whom look forward to visiting Rabbi Tyson and getting to know South Bend and the Sinai community until they can move here permanently.