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Rabbi Aderet Drucker

Executive Director & Community Rabbi

Rabbi Aderet Drucker is an innovative spiritual leader, dynamic educator, inspired social entrepreneur, and a natural community organizer and builder. Since her adolescence she has expressed a love of meeting new people and an instinct for curating gatherings in sacred community; inviting people to show up as their fullest selves to learn, celebrate, heal, and to join together to create impactful change in our world.

After receiving her rabbinic ordination along with a concentration in pastoral care from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Aderet served as senior rabbi for a congregation in Northern California. As Campus Rabbi for Hillel at the University of Maryland, she served on UMD’s Interfaith Campus Chaplaincy and co-founded UMD’s first Interfaith Student Fellowship; bringing together Muslim, Christian, and Jewish students.

As a community organizer trained by JOIN for Justice, Rabbi Aderet led a successful two-year community building listening project for an 850-household congregation in New York that resulted in successful and sustained communal action. Today, Rabbi Aderet leads trainings for organizational boards and professionals seeking to impact systemic change within their organizations and communities.

Rabbi Aderet is a certified Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, completing a two-year training with Or HaLev and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Rabbi Aderet is a Global Justice Fellow with American Jewish World Service. Rabbi Aderet was also selected for the inaugural cohort of JCADA’s Ambassador Program, dedicated to creating safe spaces for survivors of intimate partner violence.

An experienced backpacker, Rabbi Aderet loves traveling, spending reflective time by the water, cooking new dishes, and spontaneous dance parties with her husband and two children.