Rabbi Hara Person is the Chief Executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
Rabbi Person is also the author of Stories of Heaven and Earth: Bible Heroes in Contemporary Children's Literature, That You May Live Long: Caring for Your Aging Parents, Caring for Yourself (co-editor) , and The Mitzvah of Healing (editor). Her essays and poems have been published in various anthologies and journals, including Bridges, upstreet, Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture, Women and Judaism, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature,and The Women’s Haftarah Commentary .
Since 1998, Rabbi Person has been the High Holy Day rabbi of Congregation B'nai Olam, Fire Island Pines, NY, and she has been named adjunct rabbi at the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, where she teaches adult education classes.
Sessions in which Hara Person participates
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- Creating Cultural Change: Engage with the Work of the Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate Hotel Irvine - Grand Ballroom - Salon C
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Workshop
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- What Did You Just Say?: Tools for Responding to Inappropriate Comments Hotel Irvine - Grand Ballroom - Salon B
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What are the tools we can use to counter comments that are inappropriate, offensive, or hurtful? We will explore techniques for responding to comme...
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3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Ten Years of The Torah: A Woman's Commentary with Andrea Weiss, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, and Hara Person Hotel Irvine - Grand Ballroom - Salon E
- 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | 45 minutes
- The groundbreaking volume, The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, debuted ten years ag...
- Workshop
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Ten Years of The Torah: A Woman's Commentary with Andrea Weiss, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, and Hara Person (Session 2) Hotel Irvine - Grand Ballroom - Salon E
- 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | 45 minutes
- The groundbreaking volume, The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, debuted ten years ago, originally published by URJ Press and Women of...
- Workshop