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 Rabbi Jessica Spitalnic Brockman is Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton, Florida. She formerly served as Assistant Rabbi at Temple Beth El in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was active in raising community awareness on issues including gun violence, battered women and the separation of Church and State. She received Rabbinic Ordination from the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in 1999. Jessica is a native New Yorker who has worked in Jewish communities in New York, Chicago and London, England and Jerusalem, Israel. In Israel, she served as a tour educator for North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY) summer program, guiding Jewish teenagers through the historical sites of the land of Israel. She has had works published in several books and publications, including Theological Terms in the Talmud and The Women’s Haftarah Commentary and the website, “myJewishlearning.com”. She is an ardent Zionist, blessed to be in Israel many times in recent years as part of her fellowship with the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel. She works on many community issues, including “Project Nuremberg” with Lynn University. She was recently part of the P2K Women’s Exchange through the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. She has two children, Noah and Shira, who are her everything.
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