Faculty

Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber
is the executive director of Derekh: A Pathway into Adult Jewish Learning. Previously, Joan was the co-director of Hevreh: A Community of Adult Jewish Learners. She is a consultant and teacher of adult Jewish learners. For two years, Joan served as Interim Director of Education at Congregation B’nai Yisrael in Armonk, NY. She was Adult Learning Specialist for the Union for Reform Judaism, and was responsible for the development and publication of 10 Minutes of Torah and ran the annual URJ Kallot. Joan has served congregations on the east coast as rabbi and educator since her ordination in 1984 from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In addition to ordination in 1984, Joan received an MA of Education from New York University.

Joan is married to Andy Farber. They are inspired by the adult lives of their children: Rabbi Miriam, her husband Rabbi Beni Wajnberg, Adam, Yael and the most amazing grandsons Shai and Rafi.

Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber

Rabbi Amy Scheinerman
After nearly three decades in the pulpit rabbinate (Reform, Conservative, and unaffiliated congregations), Rabbi Scheinerman is now a hospice chaplain, scholar-in-residence, writer, and teacher. Her two-volume book, The Talmud of Relationships (Jewish Publication Society) is a 2018 National Jewish Book Award Finalist. In addition, she is the editor of the Torah Commentary column of the CCAR newsletter and serves on the CCAR Responsa Committee. She is past president of the Baltimore Board of the Rabbis, the Greater Carolinas Association of Rabbis, and the Howard County Board of Rabbis. She received her B.A. from Brown University, studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained at HUC-JIR in Jew York, where she also received a Doctor of Divinity in 2009. She and her husband, Dr. Edward Scheinerman, a mathematician and dean of graduate engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, have four children and three grandchildren. 

Rabbi Amy Scheinerman

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