Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D. an American-Israeli leader, author, and public speaker, is the Inaugural Senior Rabbi at Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation (HSOSC) in Baltimore. Ordained at Hebrew Union College (HUC) in NY, Rabbi Sabath also holds a doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS).
Prior to coming to Baltimore, Dr. Sabath served on the faculty of HUC as Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics and led a four-campus team. Rabbi Sabath was Vice President of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem where she directed leadership programs. She wrote a monthly column for the Jerusalem Post, and has published pieces in The Times of Israel, and Haaretz. Her Divrei Torah, sermons, columns, and articles can be found here.
Currently she serves on the editorial board of the CCAR Journal of Reform Judaism and is at work on two volumes, one on Jewish Peoplehood and the other, co-edited with Rachel Adler, on ethics and gender. She also teaches Jewish leaders around the world with the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.
Rabbi Sabath is an alumna of the Wexner Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Recently, Rabbi Sabath was selected to be a scholar of Our Common Destiny-- a partnership between philanthropists, the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Former Israeli President, Reuven Rivlin, and is currently part of the founding leadership team of Global Jewry, an international project to bridge internal divides within the Jewish people and external challenges from those who wish to do us harm.
