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Rabbi Jon Haddon's Biography:
Rabbi Jon Haddon has been serving Congregation Beth David since 2009. For twenty one years, he was the Spiritual Leader of Temple Shearith Israel of Ridgefield, CT, and is now Rabbi Emeritus. Rabbi Haddon has been involved with the Ridgefield, CT Community since l987, and is now an active member of the Dutchess Jewish Federaton. He is also a member, both of the Ridgefield Clergy Association, and the local Northwest Clergy Association.
He has been honored by Israel Bonds, Bnai Brith, Jewish Federation, and the Association of Religious Communities in Danbury, CT as its “Man of the Year," for his twenty-five years of board membership and volunteering. He is also a member of the Danbury Hospital Ethics Committee, Chaplain for the Ridgefield Police Department, Regional Hospice, and is chairman of the Danbury Hospital Pastoral Advisory Committee. As chair of this committee, he helped design and plan the hospital's new chapel. He is also a founder of the Ethnic Diversity Committee, serves on the Bnai Brith World of Difference committee, and Friends of Healing Hearts.
Rabbi/Cantor Haddon also presents programs regularly for all of the local churches and nursing homes. As a member of the Ridgefield and Northwest Clergy Associations he has worked tirelessly in fostering good relations between the Jewish and Christian communities.
Jon Haddon received his early religious instruction in the Conservative movement of Chicago. As a young man he was cantor for the United Synagogue Youth. In addition, he was a member and soloist of numerous synagogue and professional choirs, including the famed Halevy Chorus.
A graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in music education, Jon Haddon was invested as a cantor in 1972 while serving Community Synagogue in Rye, NY. for six years. He then left the cantorate to pursue full-time rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College, which included a year of Hebrew study in Jerusalem. As a student, he held pulpits in Bayonne, NJ and White Plains, NY. Upon his ordination in l980, he was appointed the first full-time Director of the School of Sacred Music, a position he held for four years. Rabbi Haddon was very much responsible for changing the charter of the school from a bachelor's degree to a master's degree, and helped incorporate a required year in Israel for all cantorial students.
A few years ago, Rabbi Haddon was the keynote speaker at the Antioch Baptist Church of Bedford Hills, New York on the subject of "Building Bridges Together: Blacks and Jews.
His hobbies include music, especially guitar and violin. He is married to Jean Reynolds Haddon and is the step-father to three grown children, Dr. Ben Wellington, Dr. Abby Wellington, and Brad Wellington
Inscription at the bottom of my Doctor of Divinity Degree:
“Devoted rabbi, who as spiritual leader of Temple Shearith Israel, Ridgefield, Connecticut for nearly two decades, serves his congregation and community with unstinting zeal, who, as a Rabbi and Cantor, adds a special dimension to this rabbinate, who is a strong voice in his community for interfaith understanding, working tirelessly to promote bridges of understanding between Jews and Christians, whose active membership in the Danbury and Ridgefield Jewish and secular societies has earned for him positions of prominence, and who, as the first full-time Director of the School of Sacred Music, shows his dedication to his alma mater."
He has been honored by Israel Bonds, Bnai Brith, Jewish Federation, and the Association of Religious Communities in Danbury, CT as its “Man of the Year," for his twenty-five years of board membership and volunteering. He is also a member of the Danbury Hospital Ethics Committee, Chaplain for the Ridgefield Police Department, Regional Hospice, and is chairman of the Danbury Hospital Pastoral Advisory Committee. As chair of this committee, he helped design and plan the hospital's new chapel. He is also a founder of the Ethnic Diversity Committee, serves on the Bnai Brith World of Difference committee, and Friends of Healing Hearts.
Rabbi/Cantor Haddon also presents programs regularly for all of the local churches and nursing homes. As a member of the Ridgefield and Northwest Clergy Associations he has worked tirelessly in fostering good relations between the Jewish and Christian communities.
Jon Haddon received his early religious instruction in the Conservative movement of Chicago. As a young man he was cantor for the United Synagogue Youth. In addition, he was a member and soloist of numerous synagogue and professional choirs, including the famed Halevy Chorus.
A graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in music education, Jon Haddon was invested as a cantor in 1972 while serving Community Synagogue in Rye, NY. for six years. He then left the cantorate to pursue full-time rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College, which included a year of Hebrew study in Jerusalem. As a student, he held pulpits in Bayonne, NJ and White Plains, NY. Upon his ordination in l980, he was appointed the first full-time Director of the School of Sacred Music, a position he held for four years. Rabbi Haddon was very much responsible for changing the charter of the school from a bachelor's degree to a master's degree, and helped incorporate a required year in Israel for all cantorial students.
A few years ago, Rabbi Haddon was the keynote speaker at the Antioch Baptist Church of Bedford Hills, New York on the subject of "Building Bridges Together: Blacks and Jews.
His hobbies include music, especially guitar and violin. He is married to Jean Reynolds Haddon and is the step-father to three grown children, Dr. Ben Wellington, Dr. Abby Wellington, and Brad Wellington
Inscription at the bottom of my Doctor of Divinity Degree:
“Devoted rabbi, who as spiritual leader of Temple Shearith Israel, Ridgefield, Connecticut for nearly two decades, serves his congregation and community with unstinting zeal, who, as a Rabbi and Cantor, adds a special dimension to this rabbinate, who is a strong voice in his community for interfaith understanding, working tirelessly to promote bridges of understanding between Jews and Christians, whose active membership in the Danbury and Ridgefield Jewish and secular societies has earned for him positions of prominence, and who, as the first full-time Director of the School of Sacred Music, shows his dedication to his alma mater."
