Dr. Einat Ramon
Lecturer, Jewish Thought and Literature, Jewish Feminism
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

Dr. Einat Ramon teaches modern Jewish thought and literature and Jewish feminism at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. From 2005-2009, she served as Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, where she was instrumental in implementing a number of innovative programs including the first accreditated chaplaincy program in Israel.  Ramon received ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1989, making her Israel’s first woman rabbi. Ramon, who received her PhD from Stanford University, has written and published numerous articles on modern Jewish thought, Jewish feminism and Zionist intellectual history. Her most recent book, A New Life: Religion, Motherhood and Supreme Love in the Works of A.D. Gordon, is an analysis of the theology of the Labor Zionist thinker, Aharon David Gordon (1856- 1922). She lives in Jerusalem with her husband Rabbi Arik Ascherman and with their two children.