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| Director, Jewish Outreach |
| As Director of Jewish Outreach at the 92nd Street Y Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, Rabbi Leana Moritt oversees the Y's Jewish family and adult education programs, including the nationally known introduction to Judaism course, Derekh Torah (Hebrew for "the way of Torah"), the cornerstone of the Y's Jewish outreach program. Ms. Moritt has been a member of the Derekh Torah faculty since 2001 and assumed her current post in the summer of 2003. In addition to Derekh Torah, she directs the Y's long-running Workshops for Interfaith Couples, After the Huppah: Making Marriage Work, Spirituality Series, adult seminars and community holiday celebrations. She has also initiated several new educational programs, including a workshop for parents of interfaith couples; a series of workshops called "Bringing It Home: Habaita," which aims to empower parents to create meaningful Jewish experiences for their families; and "Rabbi, I Was Wondering," a series of introductory-level workshops. |
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| Born and raised in the New York area, Ms. Moritt completed her B.A. in Business and Music at New York University's Gallatin Division. After graduation, she embarked on a successful 10-year career as Director of Production at Arista Records where she oversaw production of albums by Whitney Houston, Kenny G, and The Grateful Dead among others. She retired from the music business in 1993 after her second son was born (she would later have a third son), and became an active Jewish community leader in and around New York. She co-founded Congregation Kol HaNeshamah in Englewood, NJ, in 1997, and began her rabbinic studies in 1999 at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Riverdale, the nation's only pluralistic Jewish seminary. She has been active in Congregation B'nai Jeshurun on the Upper West Side since 1990, and has served and taught there in a variety of settings. She has also served as Jewish educator and prayer leader at Lishmah, JCC on the Palisades, and Elat Chayyim (a Jewish spiritual retreat in the Catskills) and as chaplain at Hackensack University Medical Center. |
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