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Jessie Rubenstein

Teacher

Bio:

Jessie Rubenstein is a Jewish Educator who has worked in the Jewish community as a teacher, lay spiritual leader, officiant, and mentor for the past 18 years. Jessie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Religious Studies with a minor in Classics from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, as well as two Masters Degrees – one in Jewish Studies and one in Jewish Education – from Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. As an educator, Jessie holds to the ideal of Jewish Education for All, having chosen to focus on Neurodiversity in Jewish Education in her studies. Jessie has a passion for interfaith and inter-Judaisms dialogue, believing that all religious traditions can and should learn from and with one another. An (almost) native Arizonan, she lives in Phoenix with her wife of 10 years, Xan, and two children, Helena (a third grader at Pardes!) and Leon (a future panther).