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Sunday, December 13 • 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Opening Session: Welcome and Introductions

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Opening Session: Welcome and Introductions
Rabbi Melissa Heller (RRC ’08), Director of Admissions and Recruitment
Stephanie Breitsman, 2nd Year student, Admissions Intern

Greetings from Reconstructing Judaism’s President  
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, PhD (RRC ’99), President, Reconstructing Judaism
Why Reconstructionism Now?

RRC’s Approach to Rabbinical Education 
Elsie Stern, PhD, Vice President for Academic Affairs

Optional Prep for Opening Session:
In advance of a deeper dive into learning about RRC's curriculum with Dr. Elsie Stern, we have a recording of the presentation that Elsie gave recently for one of our open houses. (If you attended one of those sessions, then you have heard this material.)
Speakers
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Rabbi Melissa Heller (RRC '08)

Director of Admissions and Recruitment, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Rabbi Melissa Heller is the Director of Admissions and Recruitment at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. In this role, she has the great privilege of supporting prospective rabbinical students as they discern and enact their visions of service and leadership for the Jewish... Read More →
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Elsie Stern

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Stern received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and her Master of Arts and doctorate from the University of Chicago. She is the author of From Rebuke to Consolation: Bible, Exegesis and Ritual in the Literature of the Tisha b’Av Season (Brown Judaic Series, 2004) and i... Read More →
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Stephanie Breitsman

Senior, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Steph Breitsman is a senior rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) in Philadelphia. She is the Rabbinic Advisor for Bryn Mawr College Hillel, where she teaches Torah, leads Shabbat and holiday services, and supports her students in nurturing a vibrant... Read More →
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Rabbi Deborah Waxman (RRC '99)

President and CEO, Reconstructing Judaism
The first woman rabbi to head a Jewish congregational union and seminary, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., became president of Reconstructing Judaism in 2014. Since then, she has drawn on her training as a rabbi and historian to be the Reconstructionist movement’s leading voice in the... Read More →

Sunday December 13, 2020 12:00pm - 1:15pm EST
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