Class of 2023 / 5783
Mazal Tov to the Rabbis, Cantors, Graduates, Alumni Honorees, and Honorary Degree and Joseph Prize Recipients of Our 148th Academic Year!
Rabbinical Ordination
Rebecca Gabrielle Benoff
Anna Meyers Burke
Matthew Derrenbacher
Ashley Catrina Englander
Remy Farrah Liverman
Benjamin Andrew Rosen
Edith E. Yakutis
Taylor Shannon Baruchel
Megan Ilana Brumer
Anna Kathryn Calamaro
Melissa Carp Lefkowitz
Elias Luis Ivone Chajet
Leo Eliezer Fuchs
Miriam Eve Hoffman
Jessica Micole Jacobs
Samuel David Kanter
Rebecca Emily Kaufman*
Chayva Lindsay Lehrman
Ariel Ezekiel Tovlev
Michael Geoffrey Walden
Esther Sarah Jilovsky**
*Ordained in New York
**Ordained in 2021
David Azoulay
Yael Gamon
Leora Tamar Londy-Barash
Sivan Navon-Shuval
Michal Talya
George Louis Cheever Altshuler
Yonatan Yosef Arnon
Chelsea Rebecca Feuchs
Lily Sklar Goldstein
Rebecca Emily Kaufman
Jacob Emmett Leizman
Sienna Rachel Lotenberg
Andrew Kaplan Mandel
Heather Alexandra Shore
Healy Shir Slakman
Amanda Katherine Weiss
Cantorial Ordination
Ella L. Gladstone Martin
Jordan Goldstein
Kalix Rosenbaum Jacobson
Emma Rebecca Maier
Becky Alaine Mann
Sydney Rose Michaeli
Emily Hoolihan Short
Isaac J. Sonett-Assor
Ze’evi Simcha Tovlev
Agnes Barroll Valdman
Rachel Paula Weston
Graduation
Cincinnati
Eric Anthony Barrios
Rachael Maxine Houser
Remy Farrah Liverman
Karen Elana Martin
Rocki Schy
Jerusalem
Michal Abramoff
Aviv Ben Or
Reut Ben Yosef
Shlomit Boni
Noga Caspi
Yaniv Cohen
Tsadok Einav
Michal Gliksman
Eran Kleiman
Ami Landau
Gonen Nofar Landow
Tammy Marmor
Nissan Nir Sabo
Orit Tor
Hadas Laor Ashur
Yael Katz Ben-Yitzchak
Daphna Gilat
Asya Lipmanovich
Geffen Luz
Hadas Paster-Bachar
Sofia Farber Limor Rubin
Yichye Shlomiy
Silvia Trajtenberg-Ovadia
Vardit Lurie Vaytsman
Levana Tova Vindver
Los Angeles
Aaron Blasband
Timothy Welles Gaylord
Lauren Maya Roth
Sarah Elizabeth Ettinger, in absentia
Chelsea Ann File
Jeremy Brandon Fox
Sonya P. Basseri
Eitam Kohen
Jordan Ariel Rohde
Ariela Leah Young
Hannah Yael Bahena
Liora Ellen Bernstein
Ilana Blair Goldberg
Aubrey Megan Golding
Jason Gluck Goldman
Emily Rebecca Kahn-Perry
Max Alexander Kasler
Rena Elayne Lubin
Yeshimevet Mengistu
Julia R. Pratt
Kalix Rosenbaum Jacobson
Hannah Kallus Taylor
Jordan Adam Vaughter
Kelly N. Whitehead
Dominika Magdalena Zakrzewska-Oledzka
Leah Chakoff
Maura Faye Schmid Koenig
Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska
Dona Standel
Hannah Taylor Bloomberg
Yael Lee Farber
Eden Farrah Glaser
Charles J. Mays
Joshua Michael Shapiro
Jeffrey M. Silverstein, in absentia
Gabrielle Jona Cohn
Max Gabriel Antman
Rachel Reiter Adelman
Chelsea Ann File
Arie Joseph Isidore Roete Finkelstein
Tessa Kelly
Zachary Miller
Douglas Pierce
Mark Andrew Rodriguez-Abad
Brooke Rose Smallson
New York
Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman
Andrea Michelle Goldstein
Devra Chriss Aarons
Molly E. Bajgot
Marla Aviva Bentley
Sarah Troderman Clarkson
Samantha Sloan Eichert
Ilana Gelemovich
Emily Sarah Halpern
Holly S. Krakow
Brett Steven Lubarsky
Ilana Mansharov
Jennifer Rose Zak
Margie A. Zeskind
Joseph Clark Flaxman
Iris Karlin
Gabriel Samuel Moffitt Lehrman
Kevin Daniel McKenzie
Shirel Meital Richman
Gabriel David Snyder
Sonya Elayne Zell
Gabrielle Jona Cohn
Jamie Michelle Field
Ezra M. Leventhal
Gabriel Matthew Miner
Shoshana Nambi
Alissa Jane Platcow
Sivan Rotholz
Jack Elijah Sherratt
Ada Luisa Sinacore
Arielle Aviya Stein
Lara Brooke Tessler
Kelly N. Whitehead
Peter Erwin Young
Sarah Sania Nabagala
Hye mee Aharonah Moon
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa
R. Marie Griffith, Ph.D., John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, and Director, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
Anat Hoffman, Executive Director, Israel Religious Action Center
Sue Neuman Hochberg, Immediate Past Chair, HUC-JIR Board of Governors
Daryl Messinger, Immediate Past Chair, URJ Board of Trustees
Roger E. Joseph Prize
Center for Reproductive Rights
Our thanks to the Joseph Prize Endowment and the Joseph Family for their support of Ordination in New York.
Honoring Our Alumni
Recipients of Alumni Honorary Doctorates in 2020 and 2021 received them in an online ceremony. They have also been invited to participate in our in-person ceremonies this year.
Rabbinical Alumni Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa
John Louis Bush
Yael Sabath Splansky
Jonathan Tabachnikoff
Mira Beth Wasserman
Miri Gold
Ada Hasia Zavidov
Mona Alfi
Andi Berlin
James Moss Brandt
Kenneth Mark Chasen
Heidi Michelle Cohen
Dennis J. Eisner
Allison Beth Flash
Peter Sela Levi
Sharon Mars
Yoshi Zweiback
Scott Turberg Aaron
Joel Nathan Abraham
Brian K. Beal
Lisa Sari Bellows
Peter S. Berg
Laurie Katz Braun
Stacy Bergman
Deborah Bordin Cohen (Received in 2022)
Deborah K. Bravo
Joshua L. Caruso
Javier Eduardo Cattapan
Mark David Cohn
Brenner Glickman
Elaine Rose Glickman
Andrea Michelle Goldstein
Daniel Benjamin Gropper
Marc Daniel Israel
Daniel Judson
David Michael Kessel
Zoe Klein Miles
Brian Zachery Mayer
Michael Mellen
Joel Myles Mosbacher
Howard Needleman
Hara Elizabeth Person
Steven H. Rau
Rochelle Robins
Steven Daniel Sirbu
Rachel Smookler
David B. Thomas
Deborah Till
Andrew D. Vogel
Barry Leland Cohen
Allison Conyer
Jacqueline Ninio
Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music Cantorial Alumni Doctor of Music, honoris causa
Andrew Jay Bernard
Chanin Becker Rosen
Oksana Chapman
Gabrielle Jochnowitz Clissold
Jessica Fox Epstein
Geoffrey Bruce Fine, in absentia
Yelena Gurin, in memoriam
Jennifer Blum Seeger
Sarah Anne Zemel
School of Education Alumni – Doctor of Jewish Religious Education, honoris causa
Lauren Silverstein Cohn
Laura Bramson Hyman
Daniel Jonathan Moskovitz
Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management Alumni – Doctor of Jewish Nonprofit Management, honoris causa
Betsy Barth Marantz
Michelle Beth Shahon
Pines School of Graduate Studies Medallion
Stephen J. Andrews
James Bowley
All degrees granted upon completion of all requirements.