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Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, a native of Chicago's South Side, has been the rabbi of B'nai Yehuda Beth Sholom, in Homewood, Illinois, since 1998. Prior to that, she served as spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Sholom in Park Forest and Temple B'nai Israel in Kankakee.
Rabbi Dreyfus is immediate past-president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the organization of nearly 2,000 Reform rabbis in North America and around the world. She serves on the Board of the Union for Reform Judaism, the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reform Pension Board. She is past-president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, the first woman to hold this office. She is a founder and past-president of the Women's Rabbinic Network and is an Associate Chair of the Israel Bonds Rabbinic Cabinet. She has served as president of the South Suburban Ministerial Association, and chair of the Rabbinic Advisory Committee of the Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute Camp, where she teaches each summer.
In 2004, the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute
of Religion awarded Rabbi Dreyfus the degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, for 25 years of service to the Jewish people.
Social hour with kosher refreshments follows the program.
Tickets: $10.00 at the door. CJHS and TBI members: Free
For more information: info@chicagojewishhistory.org or 312-663-5634
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LocationTemple Beth Israel (View)
3601 Dempster Street
Skokie, IL 60076-2341
United States
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