Gilah Kletenik Explained

Gilah Kletenik
Nationality:American
Occupation:Congregational Scholar

Gilah Kletenik is an academic and Open Orthodox rabbi.[1]

Education

Kletenik grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she attended the Seattle Hebrew Academy and later Northwest Yeshiva High School, from which she graduated in 2005.[2]

She studied at Migdal Oz (seminary) of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel, and graduated summa cum laude from the Honors Program at Stern College for Women in 2009.[3] As a student leader, in response to the Agriprocessors meat scandal, she organized a panel on ethics and the laws of Kashrut.[4] Kletenik subsequently suggested that the foundation of the biblical laws of kosher are essentially ethical, that "the earth is not yours to plunder".[5] Her Senior Honors Thesis was entitled To Judge or Not Judge: Women's Eligibility to Serve as Judges: an Exploration of the Biblical, Tannaitic, Amoraic and Tosafist Literature.[6]

In 2011, Kletenik earned a Master of Arts degree in Biblical and Talmudic Interpretation from the Graduate Program for Women in Talmud at Yeshiva University. While at Yeshiva, she was one of the leaders of the Social Justice Society of Yeshiva University, which The Forward called part of "a boom in Orthodox social activism among the young".[7]

She also studied Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.[8]

Kletenik earned a Ph.D. in the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Department at New York University.[9] [10]

Career

Kletenik is a Starr Fellow at Harvard University.[11] She has written about Jewish studies[12] and other topics.[13]

Previously she was a congregational scholar at the Modern Orthodox Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun[14] on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. During her tenure at Kehilath Jeshurun, which concluded in 2014, Kletenik was among a few Orthodox women worldwide functioning as religious leaders.[15] Kletenik has been a vocal advocate of advancing women as rabbis and clergy, notably suggesting as much in a public sermon.[16] She has written about this position, which has been deemed controversial,[17] in the Huffington Post.[18] Kletenik has also written on political affairs, which she considers through a philosophical lens, most recently opining on ISIS in .[19] Working towards a more egalitarian Jewish leadership landscape, she is also a founder of the Orthodox Women’s Leadership Project.[20]

Kletenik is one of The Jewish Week’s "36 under 36",[21] an inaugural recipient of The Covenant Foundation’s Pomegranate Prize,[22] and a Wexner Foundation Graduate Fellow.[23]

Kletenik was the first female high-school-level Talmud teacher at the Ramaz School[24] and has advocated for equality in Jewish learning.[25] Kletenik has lectured and taught at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah,[26] Mechon Hadar, JOFA,[27] and the Drisha Institute.[28]

Kletenik interned on Capitol Hill for Congressman Gary Ackerman.[29]

In 2013, she was exhibited at the Jewish Museum Berlin in Jew in the Box.[30] [31]

In 2014, Kletenik was included on the list "radical Jews you really need to know".[32]

Personal life

Kletenik is the daughter of Moshe Kletenik and Rivy Poupko Kletenik,[33] and the granddaughter of Baruch Poupko. She is married to Rabbi Samuel Klein.[34]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shabbat Learning with Rabbi Samuel Klein & Rabbi Gilah KletenikCongregation Beth Shalom – a Conservative Synagogue in Seattle. 2021-04-30.
  2. Web site: The Jewish Sound . Examining politics from the inside . Diana Brement . September 7, 2007 . March 28, 2014.
  3. Web site: Orthodox Leadership Project. Stories . March 28, 2014.
  4. News: The New York Times. Label Says Kosher; Ethics Suggest Otherwise. Paul Vitello. October 8, 2008 . March 28, 2014.
  5. News: The Atlantic. Kosher Meets Hipster. Anna Goren. September 24, 2014 . October 8, 2014.
  6. Kletenik, Gilah. https://books.google.com/books?id=J6ricQAACAAJ. Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women. S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program, 2009.
  7. News: Social Activism, Modern Orthodox-Style - A Younger Generation Takes Steps To Change Larger World. The Forward. March 6, 2009. Michael Orbach. 1.
  8. Web site: AWP: Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community. AWP Orthodox Leaders Cohort . February 23, 2011 . March 28, 2014.
  9. Web site: JOFA Conference 2013 . Gilah Kletenik | Passing the Baton: Models of Young Women Leaders . December 8, 2013 . March 28, 2014.
  10. Web site: 2017-08-16. Visiting Scholars. 2021-04-30. Center for Jewish Studies. en-US.
  11. Web site: 2017-08-16. Visiting Scholars. 2021-04-30. Center for Jewish Studies. en-US.
  12. Web site: 2021-04-19. What's the Matter With Jewish Studies? Sexism, Harassment, and Neoliberalism For Starters. 2021-04-30. Religion Dispatches. en-US.
  13. Web site: 2020-01-17. Combating Antisemitism: The Role of Myth . 2021-04-30. en-US.
  14. Web site: Congregation Kehilath Yeshurun Synagogue Office Directory . March 24, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407065611/http://ckj.org/docs/10.2.2013.pdf . April 7, 2014 . dead .
  15. Web site: The Daily Beast . Why It's Wrong To Reject Women Rabbis . Elisheva Goldberg . May 8, 2013 . March 28, 2014.
  16. Web site: Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. The Feminine Critique: What of Jewish Leadership? . Gilah Kletenik . October 8, 2014.
  17. Web site: The Book of Doctrines and Opinions: Notes on Jewish Theology and Spirituality . New Potential Group of Orthodox Female Clergy – graduates of the GPATS. Alan Brill . March 5, 2012 . March 28, 2014.
  18. Web site: The Huffington Post . Gender Disparity in the Clergy: Breaking the Stained Glass Ceiling . Gilah Kletenik . March 5, 2012 . March 28, 2014.
  19. Web site: 3:AM Magazine . Sounding out the Idols: Images, Ideology and Isis . Gilah Kletenik . March 7, 2015 . March 9, 2015.
  20. Web site: Orthodox Leadership Project. Stories . March 28, 2014.
  21. Web site: The Jewish Week . Gilah Kletenik, 23 | Orthodox Jewish Educator . Amy Spiro . June 15, 2010 . March 28, 2014.
  22. Web site: The Covenant Foundation. Inaugural Pomegranate Prize Recognizes Five Promising Jewish Educators . November 6, 2011 . March 28, 2014.
  23. Web site: The Wexner Foundation. Welcome to Class 26 of the Graduate Fellowship Program . June 4, 2013 . March 28, 2014.
  24. Web site: The Jewish Sound. Seattleites win education prize . Joel Magalnick . November 10, 2011 . March 28, 2014.
  25. Web site: IDEAS Institute for Jewish Learning and Ideals . Give Unto Us a Possession among the Brethren of Our Father: Separate is Not Equal . Gilah Kletenik . November 19, 2009 . March 28, 2014.
  26. Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and Yeshivat Maharat Winter Learning Program 2012 http://yeshivatmaharat.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Winter-Learning-Program-20141.pdf
  27. Web site: JOFA Conference 2013 . Gilah Kletenik | Passing the Baton: Models of Young Women Leaders . December 8, 2013 . March 28, 2014.
  28. Web site: The Drisha Institute. Faculty and Guest Lecturers . March 28, 2014.
  29. Web site: The Jewish Sound . Examining politics from the inside . Diana Brement . September 7, 2007 . March 28, 2014.
  30. Web site: Jewish Museum Berlin. Special Exhibitions | THE WHOLE TRUTH … everything you always wanted to know about Jews . March 22 – September 1, 2013 . March 28, 2014.
  31. Web site: The Jewish Sound . Thinking outside the box . Rivy Poupko Kletenik . August 26, 2013 . March 28, 2014.
  32. Web site: Jewdas: Radical Voices for the Alternative Diaspora . And here are even more radical Jews we completely forgot to mention last time . Levi Tazir . September 10, 2014 . March 9, 2015.
  33. News: The Pull of the Reign. Seattle Times. A1. Florangela Davila. November 12, 1997.
  34. Web site: Weekly Update: Shabbat Tetzave (CholentFest) 5776 .

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