Carole B. Balin

As a prolific writer and teacher, Rabbi Carole B. Balin, Ph.D. is known for her fresh ideas, authenticity, and way with words. She is chair of the board of the Jewish Women’s Archive and professor emerita of history at her alma mater, Hebrew Union College, where she was the first woman at the New York campus to earn tenure. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, she earned a doctorate at Columbia University and speaks and publishes widely on gender and the Jewish experience.

Carole is currently writing a book about bat mitzvah anchored in the stories of the pioneering girls who sparked a gender revolution in Jewish life.