From seminary to secretary: How Uri Monson balances Pennsylvania’s budget and keeps Shabbat

From seminary to secretary: How Uri Monson balances Pennsylvania’s budget and keeps Shabbat

Only in a family where nearly everyone is a rabbi does becoming a Cabinet secretary in one of the largest states in the nation make you a black sheep. That’s the joke that Uri Monson, Pennsylvania’s budget secretary, likes to make when describing his career as a public servant in the context of his family — a brother, father, grandfather and great-grandfather who were rabbis; a stepmother who was a lifelong Jewish nonprofit professional; and a m…