Emily Dunn

Emily Dunn (Col ’05) was ordained from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in June. During rabbinical school, Ms. Dunn held student pulpits at Bnai Zion Congregation in Shreveport, La., and at Temple Beth Shalom in Cincinnati. She has been involved with her HUC-JIR community serving as the summer intern at the Jerusalem campus, as co-chair of HUC-JIR Year in Israel’s Former Soviet Union Passover Project 2005-2006 and serving for three years on the Rabbinic Student Association board as the women’s rabbinic network liaison, secretary and president. Her thesis, Telling and Retelling: The Women’s Seder and Ritual Innovation, explored the history of the women’s Seder and the development of its liturgy and rituals as a primary example of feminist ritual and liturgical innovation.