Rabbi Aderet Drucker is honored to serve as rabbi for the Congregation Shomrei Torah community. Aderet is in her fifth and final year of rabbinical school at The Jewish Theological Seminary and has been awarded the prestigious Gladstein Fellowship in Entrepreneurial Rabbinic Leadership.. Aderet holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Anthropology from UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to rabbinical school, she was the Director of Youth Programs at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, California. Aderet spent her third year of rabbinical school studying in Jerusalem, Israel, where she also served as a rabbinic intern to Rabbi Mauricio Balter and his Masorti community in northern Israel. The Masorti Foundation featured Aderet and her experiences interning for Rabbi Mauricio Balter in the Masorti Foundation’s July 2010 newsletter, on page 3.  While living in Jerusalem, she was also a participant of the Shalom Hartman Rabbinical Students Seminar, a yearlong seminar bringing together interdenominational rabbinical students from six different North American rabbinical schools. Aderet is a firm believer in the importance of strengthening relationships within the Jewish community as well as interfaith relationships.  In the summer of 2011, Aderet was one of sixteen Jewish and Muslim participants selected to attend the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s Retreat for Emerging Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders, held in Connecticut.

Aderet has completed training in community organizing, a 400-hour unit in hospital chaplaincy at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan.  She was selected to participate in the 2010-2011 cohort of the Rabbis Without Borders Student Fellowship through The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL). In addition to her role in Tallahassee, she also serves as the rabbinic intern for Temple Israel Center of White Plains, New York, where Rabbi Gordon Tucker mentors her.

Aderet is happily married to her husband and partner in life, Brett.  Brett holds two Master’s, the first from the Master of Public Art Studies Program: Art/Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts and the other from JTS, where he received a Master’s in Jewish Art and Visual Culture.  Brett is currently the Director of Arts Development for the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) in Peekskill, New York. 

Rabbi Aderet Drucker is available for pastoral and individual meetings during her visits to Tallahassee or phone meetings when she is back in New York.

Contact Rabbi Drucker by email.

Links of Interest

• Learning with the Rabbi
• Holiday Guides from the Rabbi
• Learn about the Gladstein Fellowship