Rabbi Elissa Ben-Naim
Rabbi Elissa Schwartz Ben-Naim brings expertise in education to her role as rabbi for Brawerman Elementary School and head of its Judaic and Hebrew studies program.
Following college in 1991, she received a Fulbright fellowship for study in India, where she researched “Women in India: Female Gurus and the Goddess Tradition.” She earned her 1997 master’s degree in Jewish education at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem and Los Angeles, and was ordained as a rabbi in 2000.
Rabbi Ben-Naim has published in
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues, and was selected by the Melton Research Center at the Jewish Theological Seminary to participate in writing a cross-denominational standards and benchmarks curriculum project for Reform, community and Conservative day schools.
