Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Executive Director
Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand was named in 2007 as the Executive Director of the Movement for Reform Judaism. Previously, she served as Vice President and Acting Director of the Wexner Heritage Foundation in New York.
She was ordained in 1993 at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she studied as a Wexner Fellow after graduating magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College. She was also a MacCracken Fellow at New York University where she has done work towards a doctorate in Talmud.
Professionally, she has served as Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Anshe Emet in Chicago; Scholar-in-Residence at the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, N.Y.; and Associate Scholar-in-Residence at Brandeis-Bardin in California. She has also served on the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards and the JTS Task Force on Jewish Religious Leadership.
Her work has been published in various books and periodicals, including Sayings of Our Mothers, The Jewish Spectator, Conservative Judaism and The Journal of Synagogue Music. She is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer at such places as: Leo Baeck College, Alma College in Israel, UJC Young Leadership Conferences, Leadership 2000, Lion of Judah International Conference, Limmud, and the ACG Young Leaders Conference in Germany.
She currently lives in London with her husband and three children.
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