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Tina Grimberg is a Reconstructionist Rabbi living in Toronto, Canada . Since 2008, she becomes a leader in the inter-religious diadoque with Muslims and Christians in Ontario, Canada. Her role was in evidence in the movement against the growing poverty in Canada[1].
Youth and Early Life[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
Tina Grimberg was born in 1963 in Kiev, Ukraine. Her family moved to USA when she was sixteen, and immediately became involved in the Jewish community of Indianapolis[2]. She developed a passionate interest in the Jewish heritage that was so hard to access in her childhood[3].
Rabbinical school[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
Grimberg initially trained and worked as a family therapist specializing in women's issues and domestic violence [4]. After she attended to the Hebrew Union College’s Jewish Institute of Religion, and she received her rabbinic ordination in 2001 . Throughout her five years of rabbinical school, she worked as an intern at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York. In the same time period, she facilitated workshops for interfaith couples at the Jewish Community Centre of the Upper West Side.
Rabbinical life[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
Following her ordination , she as Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Beth Elohim in New York city. After Rabbi Grimberg married Moshe Shizgal a canadian and they moved to Canada. Since 2002 she has served as rabbi for Congregation Darchei Noam, the Reconstructionist synagogue of Toronto[5] [6], [7].
In 2006-2007, she introduces a campaign against the violence against women in the Jewish community[8] [9] in partnership with Jewish Family & Child Service in Toronto and Jewish Women International of Canada. In 2008, she became a member of Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC)[10]. On March 2009, she participated in a prayer multifaith vigil front Ontario parliament[11] [12]. This action in solidarity with the poor people[13], [14], [15], [16]. On November 18, 2010, ISARC Forum draws 75 religious leaders on current strategies to counter poverty. This event attracted several Christians, Muslims and Jews of the regions of Oshawa, Toronto and Ottawa.
Writing[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
Her book, Out of Line Growing Up Soviet was published by Tundra Press in October 2007 [17]. His autobiographical work offers a unique window into the life of a young Jewish girl growing up with her family in Kiev in the 1960’s and 1970’s[18], [19]. The book won numerous awards in Canada, including the Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Youth Literature[20] and the Bronze Award for Book of the Year from ForeWard Magazine[21] [22].
הערות שוליים[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
- ^ Canadian Jewish News, Rabbi leads multifaith vigil at Queen’s Park, March 2009, http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16523&Itemid=86
- ^ http://www.darcheinoam.on.ca/rabbi.html
- ^ Good News Toronto, Vokune 1 Issue 6, A Rabbi for all Faiths september 2008, http://www.goodnewstoronto.ca/pdf/September2008.pdf
- ^ She awarded a diploma of Butler University and Indiana University
- ^ With Rabbi Grimberg in Toronto's Reconstructionist Synagogue
- ^ National Post, Reconstructionist synagogue opens January 28, 2008, http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=4816a73e-35ad-4096-aa97-b00ff8e51761&k=13336
- ^ Canadian Jewish News, Darchei Noam moves into its reconstructed home , 07 February 2008 ,http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14004&Itemid=86
- ^ Jewish Daily Forward, Billboards Focus on Jewish Domestic Violence, April 21, 2006, http://www.forward.com/articles/1263/
- ^ Rabbi reaches out to interfaith couples as rates climb, in Canadian Jewish News, August 2006, http://joi.org/bloglinks/CJN%20Rabbi%20reaches%20out%20to%20interfaith%20couples%20as%20rates%20climb%208-24-06.pdf
- ^ http://isarc.ca/religiousleadersforumApril09.html
- ^ Day to Day Happenings at the Prayer Vigil, http://www.isarc.ca/vigil%20day%20to%20day.html
- ^ Canadian Jewisn news 26 March 2009 , http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16523&Itemid=86
- ^ Toronto Star,http://isarc.ca/archives/TorontoStarMarch12.pdf
- ^ Dow Marmur,Time for faith leaders to step up,http://www.thestar.com/article/598084
- ^ Metro news,http://isarc.ca/archives/metronewsMarch12.pdf
- ^ 24 Hours,http://isarc.ca/archives/24hoursMarch19.pdf
- ^ http://books.google.ca/books?id=yybKUymQMV8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rabbi+Tina+Grimberg&source=bl&ots=udNg_LFpEx&sig=KcC-5F3MSAn-jnFNOIwSa8F8Xr0&hl=fr&ei=1G8fTZSAEtWUnQft2-TbDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ Jewish Literature Challenge, Out of Line: Growing Up Soviet, by Tina Grimber , april 2008. http://jewishliteraturechallenge.blogspot.com/2008/04/out-of-line-growing-up-soviet-by-tina.html
- ^ Shalom Life, From the Depths of Russia to the Heights of Darchei Noam, January 7th 2010 . http://www.shalomlife.com/eng/3805/blogs/hillel/
- ^ CBC News, Biography by Anna Porter among winners of Canadian Jewish Book Awards, May 28, 2008, http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/05/28/jewish-books.html?TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=750
- ^ Inside Toronto, Authors among winners at Canadian Jewish Book Awards, June 5 2008, http://www.insidetoronto.com/insidetoronto/article/59892
- ^ Interview with Rabbi Tina Grimberg October 12 2010