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Rabbi Peretz Rodman

Rabbi Peretz Rodman has arrived in the United States as a Masorti speaker for Israel and Aliyah promotion. This program is taking place under the banner of "Link to Israel Month" being organized by the Conservative Movement's Aliyah Committee in conjunction with MERCAZ USA, the Zionist Organization of the Conservative Movement, the Jewish Agency Aliyah Department and the North American Israel Aliyah Centers.

Rabbi Rodman is a Jerusalem-based Jewish educator with three decades of experience in interpreting Judaism for modern Jews. Born and raised in Boston, he earned degrees in Jewish studies at Brandeis University and Hebrew College. After making aliyah in 1990, he continued his studies in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University and the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, receiving his rabbinic ordination from Schechter in 1999.

Rabbi Rodman has taught Jewish and Hebrew studies in a number of educational institutions in the United States and Israel, including the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland, Brandeis University, the Schechter Institute, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also served as the Associate Director of Ta Shma, a Jerusalem-based nonprofit providing pluralist education and spent his summers for the past decade and a half as rabbi and Scholar-in-Residence at Camp Ramah in New England.

Besides classroom teaching, Rabbi Rodman has worked extensively in online education and is a regular contributor to MyJewishLearning.com — the premier website on Jewish life, culture, and practice.

Rabbi Rodman is a member of the board of Israel's Masorti Movement and is the immediate past president of the Israel Rabbinical Assembly. He is married to Miriam Laufer, a college lecturer in special education, and is father to their three children.