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Meet Rabbi Dror

Rabbi Gilah Dror has accomplished a great deal throughout her years in the rabbinate. She received her ordination as well as her master's degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1990, and has since left her mark worldwide. The current spiritual leader of Rodef Sholom Temple in Hampton, Virginia, Rabbi Dror also served for ten years at Eshel Avraham in Beer Sheva, Israel. While in Israel, she championed the Conservative Movement by setting up the first alternative cemetery in Israel in 1999.

As the president of the Rabbinical Assembly of Israel, Rabbi Dror was the first woman to lead a rabbinical organization, and through her work with the Va'ad Halakha of the RA in Israel she has published a number of teshuvot on issues ranging from the ordination of women as rabbis to the donation of bodies to medical science.

Rabbi Dror has also been active on many prominent committees, including serving as Vice-Chair of the Joint Placement Committee of the RA of Israel, the Masorti Movement and the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies. She is a member of the UJC of Newport News, and serves on the Holocaust Education Foundation board. Rabbi Dror has also served on the Board of Directors of the Seminary of Judaic Studies, on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Masorti Movement and is a founding member of the Menucha Nechona Association in Beer Sheva.

Rabbi: Gilah Dror | President: Gary Nachman | Administrator: Karen Forrest | Religious School Principal: Tess Goldblatt

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