First Day Pesach Yom Tov Service
Sunday, April 13, 10:00 am
Guest Rabbi, Felicia Sol, Senior Rabbi of Manhattan’s B’nai Jeshurun, will give the sermon
To join us online, please visit our livestream page
Kiddush following services is generously sponsored by Isidore and Marcelle Philosophe in Memory of Raphael Philosophe and Marie (Miriam) Philosophe z”l
Rabbi Sol has served as a rabbi at BJ since 2001, becoming the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the congregation’s almost 200-year history. In June 2021, she was appointed as a senior rabbi of the congregation, also a first in the congregation’s history.
During her 25-year tenure as a rabbi at BJ, Rabbi Sol has overseen the programmatic vision for the community for members of every age: transforming the teen program; creating the beloved Women’s Retreat; leading the community’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts; and envisioning the communal Back Home Shabbaton. Mentoring over 20 BJ Rabbinic fellows in and beyond their time at BJ is one of the great privileges of her rabbinate.
Rabbi Sol has served on the board of Bend the Arc and as a member of the rabbinic council of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. She is a graduate of the Clergy Leadership of the Institute of Jewish Spirituality and is currently studying as part of the Rabbinic Leadership Initiative of the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Rabbi Sol was featured in the documentary “All of the Above: Single, Clergy, Mother” and wrote an essay in the book Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Feminists on “Why We Stay.” She was recently featured in Identity/Crisis, a podcast of the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Rabbi Sol earned a BA in Developmental Psychology and Education from Tufts University, a Masters in Jewish Education from the Rhea Hirsch School of Education of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and her Masters of Hebrew Letters (1996) and rabbinic ordination (1999) also from HUC-JIR. She received her Doctor in Divinity from HUC-JIR for 25 years in the rabbinate.
Raised in Connecticut, Rabbi Sol lives on the Upper West Side with her two children.
