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Ellen Lewis

Professional Supervision for Clergy
Participates in 1 Session

Since her ordination in 1980, Ellen Lewis has enjoyed a bi-vocational career as both a rabbi and a psychotherapist. She spent 35 years serving synagogues in Dallas, Texas; Summit, NJ (named Rabbi Honorata); and Washington, NJ (named Rabbi Emerita). She was a founder and co-chair of the Women’s Rabbinic Network. She is an active member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and currently serves on the Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate. She is also a certified pastoral counselor and is a member of the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education.

While serving as a congregational rabbi, Ellen Lewis became increasingly interested in why people do what they do, leading her to train at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and become a licensed psychoanalyst. That training in emotional education led to her focusing on helping rabbis and cantors manage the challenges of the professional arena, including collegial conflict, work-life balance, gender issues, and personal and professional transformations, with the overall aim of an increased capacity for self-care, reflection and contentment. She is in private practice in Bernardsville, NJ, and New York City.

Ellen Lewis’ writings and teachings have focused on the intersection of psychoanalytic thinking and Judaism with a concentration on the rabbinate and Jewish communal life. Her essay “Changing Your Past: Reflections on Forgiveness,” appears in the new Mishkan HaNefesh: Machzor for the Days of Awe. She has contributed chapters to The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate (“Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Rabbi”) and to Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook (“Preparing for the Chupah: Premarital Counseling”). She has also written in the area of sexual abuse, including the unfortunately timely “Preventing Clergy Sexual Abuse” in Keeping Faith in Rabbis: A Community Conversation about Rabbinic Education.

Sessions in which Ellen Lewis participates

Tuesday 21 March, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Coaches Meeting and Lunch (Closed meeting)
2 hours 30 minutes, 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ardmore

Meeting

Rex Perlmeter, CCAR (Participant)

Ellen Lewis, Professional Supervision for Clergy (Participant)

Sessions in which Ellen Lewis attends

Sunday 19 March, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
4:00 PM
4:00 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

General Session

Dana Bash, CNN (Participant)

Rabbi Denise Eger, Congregation Kol Ami (Participant)

Welcome to the 128th Annual Convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Welcome: Wendi Geffen C...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Opening Night Reception: Welcome to Atlanta
1 hour 15 minutes, 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Overlook

Reception

7:15 PM
7:15 PM
Opening Night Dinner
1 hour 30 minutes, 7:15 PM - 8:45 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ellington Ballroom - Salon ABCD

Meal

Rabbi Denise Eger, Congregation Kol Ami (Participant)

Welcome: Denise L. Eger Motzi: Our Local Rabbis and Convention Committee Presentation to Denise L. Eger, CCAR President, 2015-...

Monday 20 March, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:30 AM
7:30 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ellington Ballroom - Salon ABCD

Meal

Professor Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University (Participant)

Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religio...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

Worship

Rachel Timoner, New York (Participant)

Noam Katz, The Leo Baeck Day School (Participant)

Convention Service Mercer Ballroom   Sh’lichei Tzibur Noam Katz,
11:30 AM
11:30 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

Panel

Mayor Kasim Reed (Participant)

Reverend Natosha Reid Rice, Habitat for Humanity International AND Ebenezer Baptist Church (Participant)

Reverend Raphael Warnock PhD, The Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church (Participant)

With profound gratitude, the CCAR thanks the Molly Blank Fund of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation for underwriting the CCAR’s engagement w...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ellington Ballroom - Salon ABCD

Meeting

Rex Perlmeter, CCAR (Participant)

btorop, CCAR (Participant)

Facilitated by Rex Perlmeter (Special Advisor for Member Care and Wellness, CCAR), with the participation with Betsy Torop (Manager of Member S...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Hotel Lobby

Off-site Trip

3:00 PM
3:00 PM

Atlanta - Museum

Off-site Trip

Derreck Kayongo, The Center for Civil and Human Rights (Participant)

The Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta is an engaging cultural attraction that connects the American Civil Rights Movement to to...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Buses Depart to The Temple
1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Atlanta - The Center Lobby

Off-site Trip

5:30 PM
5:30 PM

Atlanta - The Temple

Reception

6:15 PM
6:15 PM
Dinner at The Temple
1 hour, 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM

Atlanta - The Temple

Meal

7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Special Presentation of The Temple Bombing
3 hours, 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Atlanta - The Temple

Off-site Trip

Melissa Fay Greene (Participant)

Panel Presentation Moderated by Peter Berg, with Melissa Fay Greene, Jimmy Maize, Bill Rothschild, Janice Rothschild, and Alvin Sugarman.

Tuesday 21 March, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00 AM
7:00 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ellington Ballroom - Salon DEF

Meal

8:15 AM
8:15 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

Worship

Shira Joseph, Congregation Shaaray Shalom (Participant)

Matan Koch (Participant)

Ben Spratt, Congregation Rodeph Sholom (Participant)

Edythe Mencher LCSW, Union for Reform Judaism (Participant)

Rebecca Dubowe, Moses Montefiore Temple (Participant)

Cantor Faryn Kates Rudnick, Temple Beth-El, Northbrook, IL (Participant)

This worship experience will model how an inclusion-intentioned prayer enables the most meaningful experience for all.  From setting to liturgy to ...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

Talk

Paul Root Wolpe PhD, Emory University (Participant)

ETHICS KICKOFF PROGRAM While we often debate or discuss ethical dilemmas, we less often think deeply about what ethics itsel...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
CCAR Press Book Launch Celebration
30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Overlook

Meeting

Hara Person, CCAR (Participant)

This afternoon marks the official launch of our newest publication, This Grateful Heart: Psalms and Prayers for a New Day, by Alden Solovy...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

Talk

• Welcome by David Stern • Annual Report by Steven A. Fox: Rabbinic Advocacy through Ethics • Proposed Ethics (Code Changes) • In...
5:30 PM
5:30 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ellington Ballroom and The Terrace

Reception

Hosted by ARZA World/Da’at The CCAR thanks Alan Henkin for his years of wonderful service, along with our dedicated volunteer...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Pop-up DIY Maariv
1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ellington Ballroom - Salon F

Worship

8:30 PM
8:30 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

General Session

Joseph J. Levin Jr., Southern Poverty Law Center (Participant)

The Jacob Rader Marcus Memorial Lecture sponsored by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. The South...
9:30 PM
9:30 PM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

General Session

Following featured Speaker Richard Cohen on Tuesday Night The Singing Sisters of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Laura English R...

Wednesday 22 March, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00 AM
7:00 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ellington Ballroom - Salon DEF

Meal

8:15 AM
8:15 AM
Shacharit with MARAM Rabbis
30 minutes, 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

Worship

Josh Weinberg, ARZA (Participant)

Or Zohar, IMPJ , Misgav Regional Council (Participant)

Galit Cohen-Kedem, Kehilat Kodesh V’Hol in Holon (Participant)

9:00 AM
9:00 AM

Loews Atlanta Hotel - Mercer Ballroom

Workshop

Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, ROOTS/Shorashim (Participant)

Ali Abu Awwad, ROOTS/Shorashim (Participant)

Welcome by American Reform Zionist Association and Israel Ministry of Tourism With profound gratitude, the CCAR thanks the...