Work
Experience
2020 - Present
Senior Rabbi - Congregation Etz Hayim – Arlington, VA, USA
Solo Rabbi serving 140 family units in all rabbinic capacities. Supervising Preschool and Religious School directors and teachers. Teaching kids, teens and adults on a regular basis. Led lifecycle events with appropriate intimacy, weaving in family narratives to enhance meaning and integrate personal relationships. Offering pastoral care to all congregants with deep listening to touch individual lives in helping to find meaning and connections. Deeply engaged in all programming and social action initiatives within the community and in the larger DMV area.
Rabbinic Interships
2018 - 2020
2018
2017
2013 - 2015
Temple Beth Am – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Congregation Etz Chaim – Marietta, GA, USA
Kehila Tiferet Shalom – Tel Aviv, Israel
Congregação Israelita Paulista - São Paulo, Brazil
Collaborated with clergy team in multiple capacities, acquiring and increasing responsibility in rabbinic duties. Participated in planning and developing innovative services fusing new melodies, traditional liturgy, and themed-based prayer experiences in building community. Created and coordinated a variety of holidays events to all ages and populations, enhancing communal engagement through detail-oriented planning. Created text-based Torah study sessions, delivered sermons, visited congregants in homes, and developed High Holidays prayer experiences for adults, kids and teens. Officiated services and taught classes in English, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Summer Camp & Youth Group Experience
2019
2018
2017
2016
2017
2016
Camp Rabbi - Camp Colonia da CIP - São Paulo, Brazil
USY - Israel Pilgrimage Group Leader - Israel
Educator & Mashgiach - Camp Ramah Northern California - USA
Education Director, Chizuk Fellow - BB Camp - OR, USA
Educator - Camp Ramah in California - CA, USA
Madrich (Counselor) and Hanhagah (Leadership staff) Camp Colonia da CIP - São Paulo, Brazil
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Rabbinic and spiritual guidance to madrichim (counselors) and chanichim (campers). Helped the madrichim to create educational games and experiential activities to strengthen their Jewish identities and explore modern dilemmas through a Jewish perspective. Developed and implemented an innovative musical and participatory tefillah experience.
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Led four-week summer program to Israel for thirty teenagers. Developed experiences focused on strengthening their relationship to Israel.
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Developed Jewish values-based curriculum for all ages. Guided counselors to incorporate Judaism in their programming. Taught campers of all ages daily experiential activities. Led inclusive and musical Shabbat services.
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Created a 'moral debate team' to chanichim (campers) of all ages, bringing ethical dilemmas to be discussed and evaluated using critical thinking based on Jewish values and practices.
Education
2015 - 2020
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2009 - 2013
Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing
São Paulo, Brazil
B.A. Business Administration, Marketing & Entrepreneurship
2011
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
São Paulo, Brazil
M.A. in Rabbinic Studies & Rabbinic Ordination
Certificate in Non-Profit Management