Emily Singer
Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination, Class of 2025
Emily Singer is a teacher, social worker and freelance writer. Singer and her husband, Ross, were rebbetzin and rabbi of Vancouver’s Shaarey Tefilah congregation until 2004. The Singers spent two years in Jerusalem and then moved to Baltimore, MD., where Ross was rabbi at Congregation Beth Tfiloh and Emily taught Judaic studies at Beth Tfiloh High School, until they moved to Israel in 2010. Emily received her Israeli English Teaching license from Shaanan college in 2013. Currently, she works at the Shaked School at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu where she teaches English and Literature and serves as the English coordinator. She has published several articles in the Jerusalem Post and the Vancouver Jewish Independent including a humorous series about her family's Aliyah Adventures. Her first children's novel, Gilgul I: Re-Dedication, was published in 2018. She is currently working on publishing the sequel.
publications and media
Title | Type | Category | Topic | Year |
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Gilgul I: Re-Dedication | Books Written; Dvar Torah | Holidays | Chanukah | November 2018 |
Moses on Education: Breaking Through the Zoom Screen | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Ki Tissa | 2021/5781 |
mentions
Title | Publication | Published |
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Inviting Kids to Make History by Reading About Hanukkah: a Conversation with Emily Singer, Aughor of Gilgul | The Wisdom Daily | November 23, 2021 |
books
November 2018
In a new take on the Chanukah story, Rabbi Emily Singer’s middle-grade novel Gilgul imagines 15-year-old David helping in the rededication of the Beit HaMikdash.