Deborah Bodin Cohen Email & Phone Number

Millburn, Nj

Bethesda, Md

• Spiritual leader and pastoral counselor for a community-focused congregation of 90 families• Collaborate with active lay leadership on all aspects of synagogue programming, including a strong focus on social action and adult education• Guide approximately a dozen B'nai Mitzvah students and families each year researching their B'nai Mitzvah projects and creating an unique and individual service• Teach extensively in adult education, family programs and the Sunday school • Work closely with lay-leadership on a complete revision of the Sunday school curriculum• Part-time positionCongregation Website: www.bethchai.org

Rockville, Md

• Developed concept & wrote award-winning business plan for mobile bookstore for youth.• Since launch in May 2017, visited over 100 schools, non-profits, faith groups & businesses and partnered with authors, literary events and community festivals. Opened a storefront location in 2019. • Approximately $130,000 in sales annually• Responsible for all aspects of operation from marketing to website design to book selection to customer relations to driving a 26-foot trolley. Store website: www.storyhouseonline.com

Norfolk, Virginia Area

• Active in all aspects of congregational life, including pulpit, education and counseling• Preached twice a month• Led both adult Torah study and Introduction to Judaism, plus other adult education• Part-time interim position during the transition after a longtime rabbi's death

Potomac, Md

• Oversaw all education programs for a 750-family congregation.• Create a publicity plan for all educational programs, including use of new media. • Cultivate funding sources. Write grant proposals and manage funds received.• Work in partnership with active lay committees and the Board of Trustees.• Teach extensively and preach on occasion.

• Active in all aspects of congregational life, including worship, life-cycle events, pastoral counseling, social action and teaching.• Clergy member responsible for all educational programming for a 750-family congregation. • Direct 525-student Religious School with 35 teachers and a $475,000 budget. Significant curriculum innovative and expansion.• Cultivate and mentor a very stable, highly qualified teaching faculty.• Wrote nearly a dozen successful grant applications. • Team-player. Collaborate with diverse constituents – professionals, lay-leaders and volunteers. • Earned accreditation from the Reform movement for the religious school. Fewer than thirty synagogues nationwide have this distinction. • Reinvented and greatly expanded congregation’s Family and Adult Education programs. • Designed and implemented large-scale congregational programming. • Developed publicity and promotion strategies, including use of new technologies.• Publicly represent the congregation at communal events and committees.• Lead congregational services and life-cycle events on a regular basis.

• Served as the first full-time leader of rapidly growing congregation. • Membership nearly doubled to 200 families during tenure. • Shepherded congregation through $1 million capital campaign & construction of building.• Served as President of Triangle Board of Rabbis & VP of local ministerial association.

* Monitored the alcoholic beverage industry and its marketing practices* Developed and maintained an early web-based advocacy tool* Wrote action alerts and other materials for public health advocates

Staff specialist for African-American and Jewish relations, Civil Rights and Reproductive Rights.

Mahl, Rabbinic Ordination, Rabbinics

Ba, Honors English Program

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