Rabba Claudia Marbach

Rabba Claudia Marbach has been the Director of Teen Beit Midrash of Hebrew College, a Talmud focussed after-school program for teens with both local and national cohorts since 2019. She teaches a weekly Daf Yomi class for women and writes a weekly d’var Torah blog. Rabba Claudia is a founder of the partnership minyan, Yedid Nefesh, in Newton, MA and a pop-up beit midrash for women in Boston, called One Night Shtender. Before Yeshivat Maharat, Rabba Claudia developed and taught the Rabbinics curriculum at JCDS Boston, a pluralistic Jewish Day School, for fifteen years. She has participated in interfaith dialogue, supervises teachers at Jewish day schools through Pedagogy of Partnership and teaches in the Hebrew College Rabbinical School. Rabba Claudia received her BA in English from Barnard College, JD from Boston University in addition to ordination from Yeshivat Maharat. She studied at Michlala, Drisha and Pardes and completed two units of chaplaincy training at Hebrew Senior Life in Dedham, MA.