Borowitz became the founding rabbi of the Community Synagogue in Port Washington, New York, while at the same time pursuing a PhD.
From 1962 until his death, he was a faculty member at the New York campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he became the Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education and Jewish Religious Thought.
He was elected as the first Jewish president of the American Theological Society in 1981 and served until 1982 [3][4] He celebrated his hundredth semester with the college in 2012.
[5] His work concerned itself with the dilemma of the postmodern Jew: committed to individual autonomy, but nevertheless involved with God, Torah and Israel.
Sh'ma provided a forum where voices from all segments of the Jewish community could be heard on a wide range of controversial topics.
Borowitz was a committed civil rights activist, who was arrested during a sit-in with young black people in a segregated restaurant.