Rabbi Adam Stock Spilker

Having grown up in North Carolina and graduated from Duke University with an A.B. in Religious Studies, Rabbi Spilker was ordained with a Masters of Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City in 1997. That year, he followed his wife, Cantor Rachel Stock Spilker, to Minnesota when she became Mount Zion Temple’s first invested cantor since its founding in 1856. Rabbi Spilker served Mount Zion as assistant rabbi and was selected as senior rabbi in 2001. He is now Mount Zion’s longest serving rabbi in its history. He has been involved on numerous national and local boards in interfaith and justice efforts. Cantor and Rabbi Spilker have three children.