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Rabbi Gila Ruskin
Rabbi Gila Ruskin joined Temple Adas Shalom in 2007 and she was appointed as the congregation's permanent rabbi in 2009.
Rabbi Ruskin cherishes the great variety of opportunities she has had to serve as a rabbi since her ordination in 1983 from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. For the past two academic years, she was the full time instructor of Bible and Holocaust Studies at an urban Catholic High School in Baltimore. On Christmas morning in 2006, she and her African American students appeared on the TODAY show as a modern example of Peace on Earth.
Prior to that, Rabbi Ruskin worked for 15 years as the spiritual leader at Chevrei Tzedek congregation in Baltimore. She has held such diverse roles as: mental health chaplain; pastoral counselor; curriculum development and professional development coordinator for Jewish educators and Jewish camps; university, day school, adult education, and afternoon Hebrew School instructor; spiritual educator in an Oncology unit, leader of multiple teen tours to Poland and Israel, and coordinator of programming for Jewish and African American high school students.
Rabbi Ruskin and her husband, Dr. Paul E. Ruskin, a geriatric psychiatrist, are the parents of three grown children.
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