Daniella Kolodny is the first female rabbi enlisted in the United States Naval Academy, which she joined in 2004.[1] [2] She was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary that year.[1] In 2010 the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly appointed Kolodny as its Community Development Coordinator.
She was born in Jerusalem but raised in Maryland, and earned a degree in international relations from the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, as well as master's degrees in public administration and Jewish communally service from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.[3]