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Rabbi Arinna Moon was recently hired to be the rabbi at Mt. Sinai Congregation after an almost twenty year hiatus in that position. She is not only the first woman rabbi at the synagogue, but the first woman rabbi to hold a pulpit in the state of Wyoming.
Prior to becoming a rabbi she worked in the fields of healthcare and social services, first as a psychotherapist and then as a social service administrator. In those capacities, she was an internship supervisor and degree committee member for graduate students in psychology. She founded the award-winning Partners in Caring program which serves elderly and disabled adults in public housing, and presented the program at the American Society on Aging National Conference and the First International Conference on Home Care held in Jerusalem, Israel. As the Executive Director of Children’s Country Home she oversaw the development of this non-profit home health agency which provides residential care to medically fragile children.
Rabbi Moon was part of the core team of women who organized the First International Conference on Judaism, Feminism and Psychology held in 1992. From that experience, she co-edited the book Jewish Women Speak Out: Expanding the Boundaries of Psychology which won the National Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology.
Rabbi Moon divides her time between Cheyenne and Los Angeles where she works as a hospice chaplain providing spiritual care for patients and their families at the end of life. She also teaches Biblical Hebrew grammar and prepares students for bar and bat mitzvah.
Rabbi Moon received her Master’s degree in Psychology from Antioch University Seattle in 1986 and her Rabbinic ordination from The Academy for Jewish Religion California in 2008.
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