Debra Newman Kamin
Debra Newman Kamin is the rabbi of Am Yisrael, a Conservative Synagogue in Northfield, IL. She came to Am Yisrael in 1990 and became the Congregation's sole rabbi in 1994. At that time Am Yisrael became the first congregation in the Chicago metropolitan area to be headed by a woman, and for many years it was the largest Conservative congregation in the country to have that distinction. Rabbi Newman Kamin provides keen intellectual and spiritual guidance to the congregation. She is President of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international membership Organization of Conservative Rabbis, and serves on the Chancellor's Cabinet of the Jewish Theological Seminary, the seminary that trains and ordains Conservative rabbis. She is a Hartman Fellow and the 2005 recipient of the Jewish Theological Seminary's Rabbi Simon Greenberg Rabbinic Achievement Award. Rabbi Newman Kamin is married and the mother of three adult children.
As executive director of Hadassah, Aline Kaplan credited the organization’s success to the commitment of its volunteers, whose numbers grew to a staggering 370,000 during her tenure. In addition to her impact at Hadassah, she was also a board member in several Zionist organizations and a delegate to the World Zionist Congress.
