Einat Ramon

Einat Ramon was born in 1959 in Jerusalem

Einat Ramon was born in 1959 in Jerusalem and grew up in a secular family tied to Hashomer Hatzair and the Labor movement. Her grandparents came to the Land of Israel in the Third Aliyah, and her grandfather Elazar Halperin took part in the battle of Tel Hai. Both of her parents served as officers in the IDF.

She studied at the Hebrew University High School in Jerusalem and then earned a bachelor's degree in Jewish thought and archaeology at the Hebrew University. She was ordained in 1989 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She later earned a doctorate in religious studies from Stanford University, writing on motherhood in the thought of Aharon David Gordon.

She served as a rabbi at Berkeley Hillel and in Missoula, Montana, and returned to Israel in 1994. From 2005 to 2009 she was dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem, the first woman to head a Conservative rabbinical school. There she opposed ordaining gay rabbis and same-sex marriage in the movement, which led to a conflict with the North American seminaries.

After ideological disputes she left the Conservative movement and the rabbinate, and she now defines herself as a modern Orthodox Jew. Since 2006 she has been active in spiritual care in Israel, and in 2011 she founded the Marpeh training program at the Schechter Institute. She teaches modern Jewish thought and Jewish feminism there and is married to Rabbi Arik Ascherman.