At Pardes, we are dedicated to nurturing the growth of the next generation of Jewish leaders.
Today, we celebrate our outstanding alumni who have or will be receiving rabbinic ordination this year. We are proud of them for their accomplishments and the impact they will make as leaders and teachers in their communities.
Mazal tov to all of our remarkable alumni!
ALEPH
Rachel Dorit Goldberg – Year Program 2021-2023
Andrea Kuti – Summer 2000, Summer 2002, Year Program 1998
Hebrew College
Michaela Brown – Year Program 2023, Summer 2018
Emmanuel Cantor – Year Program 2023
Leah Carnow – Year Program 2022 and 2023
Jacob Chatinover – Year Program 2022
Michael Fraade – Year Program 2022
Naftali Hirsch – Year Program 2021-2023
Allen Lipson – Year Program 2023
Heather Renetzky – Year Program 2019
Jessica Spencer – Year Program 2023
Jacob Weiss – Year Program 2023
Eliana Willis – Year Program 2023 and 2017
Benjamin Einsidler – Summer Program 2020
Hebrew Union College
Rabbinical Ordination
Samuel Isaac Rheins – Year Program 2019
Jerry Nathan Kudan – Summer 2023Shoshana Nambi – Year Program 2018
Alissa Jane Platcow – Experiential Educators 2020
Daniel Dolph Reichenbach – Experiential Educators 2018
Sivan Rebecca Rotholz – Year Program 2021
Arielle Aviya Stein – Summer 2017
Ilana Yael Symons – Summer 2020
Peter Erwin Young – Year Program 2018
Cantorial Ordination
Kevin Daniel McKenzie – Year Program 2018, Summer 2021
Jewish Theological Seminary
Jonathon Gordon Adler – Pardes Learning Seminar 2023
Jessica Charlotte Belasco – Year Program 2011, Fellows 2012, Year Program 2015
Joshua Aaron Bender – Year Program 2019
Talia Laya Kaplan – Summer 2018
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Stephanie Ann Breitsman – Adult Educators Botcamp 2020
Aliza Jane Schwartz – Year Program 2022
Yashrut
Jeremy Borovitz – Year Program 2013-2014, PCJE 2014-2015
Lexie Botzum – Kollel 2020-2023
Rafael Polisuk – Pardes Faculty
Shani Rosenbaum – Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution 2013
Aron Wolgel – Year Program 2006-2007, PCJE 2007-2009
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
Dimitry Ekshtut – Summer 2017
Barry Rosekind – Educators Program 2017-2019
Yeshivat Hadar
Shira Botzum – Year Program 2018
Yeshivat Maharat
Naima Hirsch Gelman – PCJE 2020
Miriam Lorie – Experiential Educators 2017
Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin – Summer Program 2020
Adina Roth – Year Program 1999
Dr. Yedidah Koren – Kollel 2006
Dena Weiss – Year Program 2001, Summer Program 1998, Kollel 2006-2007
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