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Save the Dates to Meet Clergy Candidates

February 18, 2021

As you know, the Clergy Search Committee has been evaluating applicants for BZBI Associate Clergyperson, and is excited to welcome three outstanding candidates for virtual visits in the coming weeks. Please mark your calendars to meet the candidates over the course of a number of services and programs throughout these consecutive weekends:
  • Rabbi Margo Hughes-Robinson: Friday, February 26 – Monday, March 1
  • Rabbi Abi Weber: Friday, March 5 – Monday, March 8
  • Rabbi Bronwen Mullin: Thursday, March 11-Sunday, March 14

This weekend, Rabbi Bronwen will participate in the following events. All events use the same registration: You can sign up here.

You can find biographies and pictures of the three candidates below.  The Monday weekly schedule email and Thursday e-Cong newsletter will have full details on the events these candidates will lead and opportunities you’ll have to talk with them.  Following each visit, an online congregational survey will ask for your thoughts and feedback about each candidate.
Dr. Marianne Ruby-Emmett
Clergy Search Committee co-chair
Ivy Weingram
Clergy Search Committee co-chair

Rabbi Bronwen Mullin is currently the rabbi of Congregation B‘nai Jacob of Jersey City (2019-present). She was the first-ever appointed Rabbinic Artist-in-Residence of Town and Village Synagogue (where she also directed The Center for Conversion to Judaism) and of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in NYC (2017-2019).

Rabbi Bronwen is a co-founder of the Jewish text-based theater company Meta-Phys Ed, with director Jesse Freedman. She received rabbinic ordination and an MA in Midrash from JTS (2017), as well as a BA in Theater and Religious Studies from Sarah Lawrence College (2006).

Rabbi Bronwen has held teaching positions at JTS, The Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, The Academy of Jewish Religion, Art Kibbutz New York, SVARA, the JCC of Manhattan, and the 14th Street Y. She is a facilitator and organizer with Encounter, Hazon, JOIN for Justice, and The Jewish Dialogue Group, trained as a hospice chaplain with MJHS, and serves on the board of The Anti-Violence Coalition of Hudson County. A Jewish educator in religious schools and camps throughout the tri-state area for over 20 years (which began at BZBI’s Neziner Hebrew School) Rabbi Bronwen brings her compassion, warmth and dynamic energy to every environment in which she serves. She is honored to be joining her home community for this special Shabbat.

Rabbi Abi Weber is a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, set to be ordained as a rabbi in spring 2021. She currently serves as the Slifka-Nadich Rabbinic Intern at the Center for Jewish Life of Princeton University, where she has built a new community of Jewish seekers among young faculty, staff, and postdoctoral fellows.

Rabbi Abi recently completed two years as a Marshall T. Meyer Rabbinic Fellow at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York City, where she developed programming around prayer and spirituality, facilitated the 20s/30s group, and participated in the clergy team. She grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Pomona College in 2011 with a degree in anthropology.

Before starting rabbinical school, Rabbi Abi worked as an Employment Preparation Trainer for people experiencing homelessness and poverty, served as a Rabbinic Intern/Leadership Fellow at Mishkan Chicago, and spent time working in the ski industry in Colorado. She completed a chaplaincy internship at the Princeton Medical Center, providing pastoral care for patients in the Critical Care Unit in addition to leading outpatient recovery groups focused on spirituality. Rabbi Abi is a proud alum of Camp Ramah in the Poconos, Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps, SVARA: The Traditionally Radical Yeshiva, and Moishe House Chicago. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her wife Diana and their daughter Yara.

Rabbi Margo Hughes-Robinson is a senior rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she is also pursuing an MA in Midrash and serves as the Program Coordinator for the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue.

A New Yorker by birth, Rabbi Margo grew up in communities all over the United States before attending Clark University, where she graduated with degrees in Theater and Jewish Studies. She is also a proud alumna of the Conservative Yeshiva Lishma Fellowship and the Hartman Rabbinic Student Seminar, and recently completed two years as a Marshall T. Meyer Rabbinic Fellow at B’nai Jeshurun in NYC.

On and off the bimah, Rabbi Margo is a passionate writer, with work published online and in print with organizations including 929.org, Hey Alma, and the Hadar Institute’s Ateret Zvi journal. Recently, she was named a member of the inaugural cohort of the Jewish Women Scholars’ Writing Fellowship, a partnership of Sefaria and Yeshivat Maharat.

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