TBA rabbi to receive doctor of divinity

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Rabbi Faith Joy Dantowitz of Temple B’nai Abraham will receive her doctor of divinity, honoris causa, from her alma mater, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. This honor comes upon her completion of 25 years in the rabbinate.

A graduation ceremony will be held Thursday, May 3, at Congregation Emanu-El in Manhattan. Her achievement will also be recognized at Shabbat services at Temple B’nai Abraham on Friday, May 4, at 6:30 p.m. at 300 East Northfield Road, Livingston, entrance on East Cedar Street. All are invited to attend.

Dantowitz joined the clergy at Temple B’nai Abraham in 2010. She received her B.A.S. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering and Applied Science. After ordination at HUC-JIR in 1993, she served as a rabbi at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills for 11 years. Following that, she was the regional director of admissions and recruitment at HUC-JIR in New York for six years. She spent nine summers on faculty at URJ Camp Harlam in the Poconos. Dantowitz was in the fourth Rabbinic Cohort of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She is passionate about social justice and was involved in efforts for marriage equality in New Jersey. Dantowitz is a member of the Women’s Rabbinic Network and CCAR. She is involved with Faith in New Jersey and the Do Not Stand Idly By campaign against gun violence. She was selected as an American Jewish World Service Global Justice Rabbinic Fellow in 2014 and traveled to Guatemala in 2015. She is currently a Jewish Organizing Institute and Network for Justice rabbinic fellow. Dantowitz and her husband, David, are the proud parents of Ezra, Benjamin, Samuel and Daniel.

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