Einat Ramon is the first woman born in Israel to be ordained as a rabbi, which occurred in 1989 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. [1] [2] She is also the first woman and the first sabra to head a Conservative rabbinical school, specifically the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem, which she was the Dean of from 2005 until 2009. [3] [1] She now teaches modern Jewish thought and literature and Jewish feminism at the Schechter Institute. [4] Ramon also earned a PhD from Stanford University. [1]. She is the author of the book A New Life: Religion, Motherhood and Supreme Love in the Works of Aharon David Gordon, and has contributed to the book New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future. [4] She lives in Jerusalem, has two children, and is married to Rabbi Arik Ascherman. [1] In 2011 she left the Conservative Movement and the rabbinate due to ideological disputes. She no longer uses the title "Rabbi" and considers herself a non- denominational observant Jew. Since 2006, Dr. Ramon has been active in the clinical pastoral care movement in Israel. She has been involved in setting up the fi rst clinical pastoral education unit in Israel, participating in the network of spiritual caregivers as the writer of the professional standards for training chaplains. Recently she set up an academic program specializing in Jewish spiritual care at the Schechter Institute.