Mar

11 2021

Rabbi Lila Kagedan: My Journey to the Orthodox Rabbinate

7:30PM - 8:30PM  

Congregation B'nai Israel
This is a free virtual lecture, on Zoom. 171 Ridge Rd.
Rumson, NJ 07760
7328421800 emilie.kovit-meyer@cbirumson.org
http://cbirumson.org

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emilie.kovit-meyer@cbirumson.org
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Join us on March 11 at 7:30 pm (on Zoom) for a conversation with Rabbi Lila Kagedan, the first female rabbi ordained to the Orthodox Rabbinate. This program is sponsored by the CBI Cultural Programming committee.

Rabbi Kagedan is a clinical ethicist and educator working in academic, pastoral and clinical settings. She is a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She holds degrees and certificates from Midreshet Lindenbaum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The University of Toronto, Harvard University, The Medstar Washington Hospital Center and Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Shalom Hartman Institute rabbinic senior fellow. She is also a Hadassah Brandeis Institute Gender, Culture, Religion and Law Research Associate.

Lila was ordained in 2015 by Yeshivat Maharat where she became the first Orthodox woman to claim the title rabbi and served until recently as the rabbi of the Walnut Street Synagogue in Chelsea, MA. She was also the founder of the Sulam School in Brookline, MA. She continues to serve as a rabbi at various locations in the Massachusetts Jewish community including the CJP, Mayyim Hayyim community Mikvah and sits on the board of the Young Israel of Brookline where is also on the COVID taskforce. She is the director of biomedical ethics and a professor of bioethics in the faculty of medicine and dentistry of New York Medical College and is also an ethicist at Boston Children’s Hospital as well as a clinical ethicist and a chaplain in hospitals and hospice settings nationally and internationally. Rabbi Kagedan is deeply committed to justice work at the intersection of faith, inclusion, anti-racism, education and health. She serves on the clergy interfaith coalition for the city of Chelsea, MA and serves as the co-chair of the disparities in health working group at the Cambridge Hospital. She is also on the inclusion committee addressing issues of social determinants of health and racial disparities of health at New York Medical College.

Registration is required - Register in advance for this meeting - the registration link can be found at the event page on our website at cbirumson.org.

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Sponsor: CBI Cultural Programming committee