Rabbi Yael B. Ridberg

Yael B. Ridberg serves as the rabbi of West End Synagogue, in NYC. A 1997 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Yael served for two years as the first Marshall T. Meyer Rabbinic Fellow at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in New York and three years as the associate rabbi of West End before becoming the sole rabbi of that congregation. Yael received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 in Communication Arts and Women's Studies.
 

In addition to her congregational responsibilities, Rabbi Ridberg serves as the President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, as a member of the Rabbinic Council of the New Israel Fund, the Board of Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, and has led a bereavement support group through the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services and the Jewish Healing Center. In 2007, Rabbi Ridberg became certified as a yoga instructor with Yogaworks. Rabbi Ridberg serves as a commentator and advisory board member for the forthcoming "Guide to Jewish Reconstructionist Practice" to be published by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and is a chapter author for the 2007 URJ publication, Life, Faith and Cancer.

Rabbi Ridberg has been invited to speak, teach, lead workshops and services for many organizations including The Jewish Funder's Network, UJA Task Force on the Jewish Woman, AIDS Interfaith New York, Planned Parenthood of NYC, URJ Commission on Synagogue Affiliation, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project of the JCC in Manhattan, The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, Rabbis for Human Rights - North America, and the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. In 2003 she was named by Jewish Women
International as one of 10 Women to Watch. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband and four daughters.

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Rabbi Yael B. Ridberg
West End Synagogue
190 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10024
Phone: 212.579.0777 x226
Fax: 212.579.2669

www.westendsynagogue.org