Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi Ph.D.
Scholar, Author, Public Speaker, Leadership Consultant
Participates in 1 Session
Rabbi Sabath is a scholar, author, spiritual leader, strategic innovator and sought-after public speaker. Most recently Rabbi Sabath led a four-campus team to achieve the goals of a five-year strategic plan as the National Director of Recruitment and Admissions at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC). In 2013 she was also appointed President's Scholar and most recently was also appointed Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics. Rabbi Sabath has taught courses on liturgy, modern Jewish thought, gender, and theology as an adjunct member of the faculty at HUC for over 16 years. Prior to her recent national role at HUC-JIR, Rabbi Sabath served as Vice President of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and for over a decade as a member of the Institute's faculty, while directing the Hartman Lay leadership, Rabbinic leadership, and Christian leadership programs for North American leaders as well as programs in pluralism and Jewish identity for officers of the IDF. Ordained in New York in 1995, Rabbi Sabath also earned a Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
For several years, Rabbi Sabath wrote a monthly column in the Jerusalem Post and has written regularly for The Times of Israel, The Huffington Post and other publications. Rachel co-authored two books and published numerous scholarly articles as well as pieces in key Jewish thought publications including “Radically Free and Radically Claimed” in Jewish Theology in Our Time. Rabbi Sabath teaches and mentors Jewish leaders of several generations and is a sought-after speaker throughout North America and Israel on leadership, Israel, gender, and theology. Rabbi Sabath serves on the editorial board of the CCAR Journal of Reform Judaism and as a consulting editor for the new multi-denominational journal, Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish Thought.
Rabbi Sabath is an alumna of the prestigious Wexner Foundation Graduate Fellowship and was selected to join the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She has served on the faculties of the Wexner Foundation, CLAL, and the Skirball Center. For more than a decade she also served seasonally as the rabbi of Congregation Shirat HaYam on Nantucket Island. Rabbi Sabath lived in Israel for nearly 15 years and currently lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi, and their three children.
Sessions in which Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi Ph.D. participates
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Gender and Power: Between Jewish Ethics and Jewish Life Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Salon DE
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Based on a forthcoming book co-edited with Rabbi Professor Rachel Adler, this session will explore core ethical principles and rabbinic texts that ...
- Workshop
Sessions in which Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi Ph.D. attends
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Hafsakah – Visit Exhibit Area (Coffee Served) Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion/3rd & 4th Floor Foyers
- 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | 45 minutes
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Catalyzing Change in Our Communities with Art Markman Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | 1 hour
- Let's talk reality. We want to innovate, but there's no time, there's no money, and no buy in from key stake holders! What if we fail? Art Markm...
- Keynote
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- Talk with the Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Room 658
- 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Meeting
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- How to Disagree Constructively: The Beit Midrash Way Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Salon BC
- 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour
- Civil discourse between political divides is turning less and less civil. Indeed, the sheer lack of desire to try to understand those with oppos...
- Workshop
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Awakening the Heart, Stimulating the Soul When You are Out There on Your Own Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Salon BC
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- For the solo or community rabbi who serves small or fiscally modest communities, it may feel at times as if one is out there working diligently ...
- Workshop
- The Calling: "Some True Stories from Under the Bimah & a Berditchever Teaching about the Same." Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Room 658
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Decliner, Destruction and Delusion: Our Confidence in the Jewish Future Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Julep
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Dr. Steven Windmueller and Rabbi Sarah Bassin will be in conversation with attendees about the trends in Jewish communal and religious life. Off...
- Workshop
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Hafsakah Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Pavillion/3rd & 4th Floor Foyers
- 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | 15 minutes
- Break
4:15 PM
4:15 PM
- CCAR Business Session including Steven Fox's Final Report Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes
- General Session
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Pursuing Justice: Using Law to Confront Antisemitism with Roberta Kaplan and Amy Spitalnick Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roberta Kaplan and Amy Spitalnick represent the Charlottesville residents injured at the August 2017 white nationalist rally and will speak abou...
- Keynote
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Wising Up: Advancing the Work of the Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 2 hours
- Starting with a creative presentation based on stories shared by colleagues, the Task Force will lead an exploration of the experience of women in ...
- General Session
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- Rabbinic Leadership, Gender, and Social Change: A Medieval Perspective HUC-JIR - Herrman Learning Center: Classroom 10
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- At least 3% of high school students in the US today do not self-identify with the sex they were assigned at birth. What does Jewish tradition have ...
- Workshop
- Commandment, Conscience, Controversy: The Reform Rabbi in the Corrupt Society HUC-JIR - AJA: Seminar Room (Split)
- 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Among the rabbinical issues we will discuss are the religious imperative to address social concerns, the conflict between external historical text ...
- Workshop
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
- WRN Dinner: All CCAR Women Rabbis Are Welcome (By reservation only) Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Continental Room
- 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 2 hours
- Meal
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- The Imperative of Criminal Justice Reform with Bryan Stevenson Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Bryan Stevenson is a public-interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. The Equal Jus...
- Keynote
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
- Welcoming Incoming Chief Executive Hara Person, Including Shacharit Service Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 1 hour
- Worship
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- The CCAR from 1889-2050: Building on the Past, Working toward the Future. A Conversation Led by Hara Person. Sponsored by friends of Hara Person from Brooklyn Heights Synagogue Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Hall of Mirrors
- 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- General Session
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Faith, Justice and Storytelling. Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH - Offsite
- 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM | 3 hours
- Join Bespoken Live in an interactive experience on the role of storytelling and faith. This session will be held in the dynamic offices of Rebel Pi...
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Feeding Body and Soul Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Julep
- 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- The interconnection of body and spirit is an essential part of what it means to be human. Jewish Family Service (JFS) Barbash Family Vital Support ...
- Workshop
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- You Shall Be a Blessing: The Heart of Jewish Spirituality Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Salon BC
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Sh'mot 12:1-3 speaks to the heart of Jewish spirituality offering us both a path—journeying inward and freeing ourselves of the constricting...
- Workshop
- The Opioid Epidemic Wears a Magen David Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Julep
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Opiod misuse and abuse is an epidemic in Ohio, as well as all across North America. As rabbis, we are well aware of the stigma attached to addictio...
- Workshop