Rabbi Melissa Simon (2008 - 2010)
Hebrew Union College -Jewish Institute of Religion, '10
Rabbi Melissa Simon is a rabbi and the Director of Lifelong Learning at Shir Tikvah in Minneapolis, MN.
She was the Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinical Intern, The Director of Children’s Education, and a Social Justice Rabbinic Intern at CBST from 2008-2010. She began working at CBST as the Children's Educator during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Rabbi Simon was ordained Rabbinical student at HUC-JIR in New York City where she received her Masters in Jewish Education (2008) and a Masters in Hebrew Literature (2009). She completed her second and third years of Rabbinical studies at HUC-JIR in Cincinnati, Ohio and received her Rabbinic Ordination from the New York campus in Spring 2010.
She has lived all over the world, from Boston to Beijing, from San Francisco to South Hadley, MA and spent a year studying in Jerusalem. Rabbi Simon served as the Student Rabbi at Denison University in Granville, Ohio and at Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, Michigan and as a Chaplain at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, she is a passionate advocate for social justice, particularly concerning Israel, AIDS education, Queer rights and Women's rights.
Rabbi Simon lives in the Twin Cities with her partner, Molly.
