Julie Schwartz (rabbi)

This article is about the American rabbi. For the comic book author, see Julius Schwartz.

Julie Schwartz is an American rabbi.[1] She was born in Cincinnati, and in 1986 she became the first woman to serve as an active-duty Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Navy, the very same year she was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[2][2][3] She counseled patients at the naval hospital in Oakland, CA, and after a three-year tour of duty she returned to Cincinnati and held assorted jobs at HUC-JIR.[2]

Eventually she became the third rabbi to be certified as a Clinical Pastoral Educator by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Educators, after which she founded HUC-JIR’s course of study in pastoral counseling for rabbinical students.[4][4]

In 1999 she became the first rabbi of B'nai Israel, the south side's first Jewish congregation in Fayette County, Georgia; they had previously been served by rabbinical students.[2]

In 2011 she returned to HUC-JIR to head the pastoral care and counseling program she founded.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Rabbi reshapes traditional mold of chaplains and healers". Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "South side's first Jewish congregation ready to move forward". Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  3. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/18/us/issue-of-women-as-rabbis-breaks-up-jewish-unit.html
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.atlantajewishnews.com/node/1004
  5. ↑ http://www.womenetics.com/Thought-Leaders-Change-Agents/rabbi-breaks-barriers