Rory Katz is a rabbi, a spiritual leader, and an educator. She was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2019 where she also received a Certificate in Pastoral Care and was the recipient of the Gladstein Fellowship in Entrepreneurial Rabbinics. She previously served for six years as the spiritual leader of Chevrei Tzedek Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to rabbinical school, she worked in both formal and informal educational settings, where she taught everyone from preschoolers to seniors, and every grade of Hebrew school. When she is not at Chochmat, she serves as the Assistant Director of the Antisemitism Education Initiative at UC Berkeley. She is currently participating in the M² Pedagogies of T’fillah Research Fellowship through which she is developing new methodologies of teaching prayer. She likes to look for fmeaning while walking her dog Arlene, practicing jiu jitsu, and doing dishes in her dishwasher-less apartment.
