Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi

Rabbi Dr. Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi s a Jewish institutional leader, author, and sought-after public speaker. Currently, Rachel serves Ohavay Zion Synagogue and is a senior scholar of the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood. Most recently she served as Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics at Hebrew Union College (HUC) and led a four-campus team to achieve strategic goals.

Prior to her national role at HUC, Rachel served as Vice President of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Ordained at HUC, she earned a Ph.D. at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is currently completing two books: the first on the development of covenant theology in the thought of Eugene Borowitz, David Hartman and Yitz Greenberg and the second, co-edited with Rabbi Prof. Rachel Adler, on gender and ethics in Jewish thought.