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Rabbi Jordi Battis

Rabbi Jordi Battis comes to us from Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland, MA, where she has served as Associate Rabbi for the past four years. Her portfolio there has included everything from adult education to environmental action, inclusion to social engagement. Before arriving at TST, she served as rabbi-educator at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, where she helped to develop the nationally acclaimed Mayim and Etzim supplementary learning programs and led their B. Mitzvah program. She is coming to Isaiah at a time when her current congregation is moving from three full-time clergy to two full-time clergy, as is typical of a congregation of their current size.

She is an alumna of Williams College and Harvard Divinity School, and received her rabbinic and education degrees from Hebrew Union College in LA. There, she was part of the prestigious HUC Mandel Fellowship in education and rabbinic leadership. She has lived and worked across the Israeli and American Jewish communities, in experiential, camp, and Hillel settings, and is a published author.

Rabbi Battis believes that Judaism is a vocabulary that we can use to bring meaning and purpose to the everyday actions of our lives. She is deeply invested in creating community rooted in values of inclusion, learning, and social justice, in which each person is welcomed, honored, and supported for who they are.

Originally from Claremont, CA, which looks about as much like a New England town as anywhere in Southern California possibly can, Rabbi Battis lives in Natick, MA, with her husband, Seth, and their school-aged sons Gershom (Gersh) and Rachmael (Rocky). She’s happy to talk Torah, YA literature, cultural change, poetry, theology (or lack thereof), and other life quandaries with equal enthusiasm.

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