Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D.

Vice President, Governance

215.576.0800, ext. 113
dwaxman@rrc.edu

In her capacity as vice president for governance, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., works with RRC’s board of governors and on such College-wide initiatives as strategic planning and accreditation; she also sits on the faculty.

Since 2002, she has served as High Holiday rabbi for Congregation Bet Havarim in Fayetteville, NY. She has published several articles, including: “‘A Lady Sometimes Blows the Shofar’: Women’s Religious Equality in the Postwar Reconstructionist Movement” in A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2010), “The Challenge of Implementing Reconstructionism: Art, Ideology and the Society for the Advancement of Judaism’s Sanctuary Mural,” co-authored with Joyce Norden (American Jewish History, September 2009), and a review of the National Museum of American Jewish History for Pennsylvania History (Winter 2012).

Deborah is a graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University, where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She received rabbinical ordination and a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters from RRC in 1999. She received a Ph.D. in American Jewish History from Temple University in May 2010; her dissertation was titled “Faith and Ethnicity in American Judaism: Reconstructionism as Ideology and Institution, 1935–1959.” Deborah serves on the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.