Rabbi Amber Powers

Assistant Vice President for Enrollment and Rabbinic Formation; Adjunct Instructor of Practical Rabbinics

215.576.0800, ext. 123
apowers@rrc.edu

Rabbi Amber Powers has served as rabbi of Temple Menorah Keneseth Chai in Northeast Philadelphia and as the mid-Atlantic regional director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. She also served as an instructor in the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School in Wilmington, DE.

Powers received a Bachelor of Arts in religion with a concentration in Jewish studies from Emory University and rabbinic ordination and a Master of Hebrew letters from RRC. She has been a guest contributing writer for MyJewishLearning.com and other Jewish Web sites, and is author of "Commentary on Haftarat Vayechi" in The Women's Haftarah Commentary, edited by Elyse Goldstein (Jewish Lights, 2004), and "Hearing Ancient, Courageous Voices for Justice and Change: Parashat Masei" in Torah Queeries, edited by Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser and David Schneer (NYU Press, forthcoming). She is an alumna of the Wexner Fellowship Program for Jewish Professionals.