|  Rabbi Dr. Einat Ramon
Dean, Schechter Rabbinical Seminary
Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, Rabbi Dr. Einat received ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1989, making her the first Israeli-born woman rabbi. Ramon teaches modern Jewish thought and literature and Jewish feminism at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Dr. Ramon, who received her PhD from Stanford University, has written and published numerous articles on modern Jewish thought, Jewish feminism and Zionist intellectual history. She has completed a book (forthcoming) on the theology of the Labor Zionist thinker, Aharon David Gordon (1856- 1922) . In 1996-1997 (during the peak of the battle against the conversion bill) she was the spokesperson of the Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel and today supervises a Masorti (Conservative) congregation in north Tel Aviv She lives in Jerusalem with her husband Rabbi Arik Ascherman and with their two children.
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