Rabbi Vivie Mayer

Director, Mekhinah-Year Program and Bet Midrash

215.576.0800, ext. 132
vmayer@rrc.edu

Rabbi Vivie Mayer is currently serving as the president of the board of the Jewish Dialogue Group, a Philadelphia-based organization whose mission is to foster respectful listening among Jews on difficult issues, particularly the Israel-Palestine conflict. She lived in Israel for seven years—in Beth Shemesh, teaching ESL in middle and high schools, and on a kibbutz, working and teaching Jewish studies to adults. She served as rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Danbury, CT, for 10 years. During that time she also served as a chaplain for Jewish women at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury. For seven years she was an active member of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association board and executive board.

She is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York. She graduated with a rabbinical degree from RRC in 1996.

Mayer has an article in The Women's Haftarah Commentary (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2004). Her congregation in Danbury published a collection of her sermons and articles and a CD of her original music.