Join us this Monday, December 13th to hear Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis, Rabbanit of the Shirat HaTamar Efrat, Israel, in conversation with our very own Rabba Sara Hurwitz. Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis is the first woman in Israel to be appointed a spiritual leader of an Orthodox congregation.
Come listen to these two trailblazing women speak about women in leadership positions in today's Jewish world.

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Rabbanit Shira Marili Marvis

Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis is the Rabbanit of the Shirat HaTamar congregation in Efrat, Israel. Prior to that, she was a Fellow at Midreshet Lindenbaum’s Institute for Halachic Leadership where she became certified in the topics of Shabbat, Niddah, Chuppah and Kiddushin, Brachot, and Issur V’Heter.

In addition to being Rabbanit of Shirat HaTamar, she is involved in the community as a member of the city council's education committee, a member of the mikvah committee, volunteers for the “Chevra Kadisha” (burial committee), and answers halachic questions. At the same time, Shira manages a Vlog called “Daf MiShelahen'' on the topic of Daf Yomi in collaboration with the Hadran organization in addition to a podcast about the weekly Parsha called “Parsha Mishelahen” with Makor Rishon. Shira is a member of the Beit Hillel Rabbinical Organization and takes an active part in the Meshivat Nefesh website in responding to halachic questions. Shira is a Fellow in the Mandel Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture. She has a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Informatics from Bar-Ilan University and lives in the Tamar neighborhood in Efrat with Shlomo and their five children.

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Rabba Sara Hurwitz

Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Co-Founder and President of Maharat, the first institution to ordain Orthodox women as clergy, also serves on the Rabbinic staff at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. 

She completed Drisha’s three-year Scholars Circle Program, an advanced intensive program of study for Jewish women training to become scholars, educators and community leaders. After another five years of study under the auspices of Rabbi Avi Weiss, she was ordained by Rabbi Weiss and Rabbi Daniel Sperber in 2009.

In 2013 she was awarded the Hadassah Foundation Bernice S. Tannenbaum prize, and the Myrtle Wreath Award from the Southern New Jersey Region of Hadassah in 2014.  In 2016 she was the Trailblazer Award Recipient at UJA Federation of New York and was named as one of Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36, the Forward50 most influential Jewish leaders, and Newsweek’s 50 most influential rabbis.  In 2017 she was chosen to be a member of the inaugural class of Wexner Foundation Field Fellows.