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Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter

Core Semikha, Class of 2016

Fruchter

Rabbanit Hadas (Dasi) Fruchter is the founder and spiritual leader of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, a new and inclusive Modern Orthodox community in South Philadelphia. Rabbanit Fruchter also holds the position of Halachic Advisor for Niddah and Women's Health at Beth Sholom Congregation. She has served as an Assistant Spiritual Leader at Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah in Potomac, MD, the largest Modern Orthodox Congregation in the Washington Metropolitan area.Originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, Rabbanit Fruchter was ordained by Maharat in June of 2016 upon completion of the Maharat Semikha Program combining a mastery of the texts of Orthodox Jewish law with pastoral education. She graduated summa cum laude from the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, and completed an M.P.A. in Non-Profit Administration and an M.A. in Jewish Studies from New York University's Wagner School of Public Service.

She is a Wexner Graduate Fellow/Davidson Scholar and was the Program Director at ImmerseNYC, New York’s only community mikvah project, in addition to teaching brides and grooms before their weddings. She completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale and was trained in community organizing through the Jewish Organizing Institute and Network (JOIN) Seminary Leadership Project.

publications and media

Title
Type
Category
Topic
Year
Taking a Step Back: Yoma 53
Multimedia
International Women's Talmud Day
April 25, 2021
Power Hour of Torah: The Shavuot Edition
Multimedia; Dvar Torah
Video Divrei Torah; Panels and Discussions; Holiday
Shavuot
May 12, 2021
At the Well
Multimedia
Podcasts
MaharatCast
May 2, 2021
On New Months and New Beginnings
Dvar Torah
Shemot
Vayekhel
2017/5777
Finding Comfort in Closeness
Dvar Torah
Devarim
Va'etchanan
2017/5777

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