Advisor: Rabbi Lucy Dinner
Rabbi Lucy Dinner has served Temple Beth Or as Senior Rabbi since 1993. Whether in teaching adults or youth, preaching, celebrating Shabbat and holidays, or participating in acts of tzedakah, Rabbi Dinner’s love of Judaism permeates her service.
Jewish education is at the heart of Rabbi Dinner’s vision for bringing Judaism to life at Temple Beth Or. In 2012, Rabbi Dinner invited Temple’s Torah Study group to explore the book of Exodus with her when she was asked to publish commentary on Exodus for the Union for Reform Judaism’s (URJ) “Ten Minutes of Torah.” Rabbi Dinner has also written Torah commentary in the book Women’s Torah Commentary and in various other internet Torah commentaries.
Rabbi Dinner’s commitment to social justice infuses her involvement in local, national, and international initiatives. Rabbi Dinner is the Chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbi’s (CCAR) Peace and Justice Committee, and the Vice Chair of the Union for Reform Judaism’s (URJ) Commission on Social Action. Learn more about the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism at, http://www.rac.org/.
In the Raleigh community, Rabbi Dinner is on the Board of Rise Against Hunger (Formerly “Stop Hunger Now”).
She is a long time member of the Triangle Martin Luther King, JR. Committee. She also has served on the URJ Committee on the Jewish Family, the Rabbinic Mentoring Committee, and currently is a member of the Reform Rabbi’s Committee on Resolutions.
In 2016, Rabbi Dinner received the NAACP Raleigh Chapter’s “Rabbi of the Year” Award and the NAACP NC Religious Leadership Award. Rabbi Dinner was named “Woman of Achievement” by the Woman’s Club of Raleigh in 2010, and to the “Academy of Women” by the YWCA in 1998.
Rabbi Dinner graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a degree in Public Policy Analysis, and she received her Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.
Jewish education is at the heart of Rabbi Dinner’s vision for bringing Judaism to life at Temple Beth Or. In 2012, Rabbi Dinner invited Temple’s Torah Study group to explore the book of Exodus with her when she was asked to publish commentary on Exodus for the Union for Reform Judaism’s (URJ) “Ten Minutes of Torah.” Rabbi Dinner has also written Torah commentary in the book Women’s Torah Commentary and in various other internet Torah commentaries.
Rabbi Dinner’s commitment to social justice infuses her involvement in local, national, and international initiatives. Rabbi Dinner is the Chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbi’s (CCAR) Peace and Justice Committee, and the Vice Chair of the Union for Reform Judaism’s (URJ) Commission on Social Action. Learn more about the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism at, http://www.rac.org/.
In the Raleigh community, Rabbi Dinner is on the Board of Rise Against Hunger (Formerly “Stop Hunger Now”).
She is a long time member of the Triangle Martin Luther King, JR. Committee. She also has served on the URJ Committee on the Jewish Family, the Rabbinic Mentoring Committee, and currently is a member of the Reform Rabbi’s Committee on Resolutions.
In 2016, Rabbi Dinner received the NAACP Raleigh Chapter’s “Rabbi of the Year” Award and the NAACP NC Religious Leadership Award. Rabbi Dinner was named “Woman of Achievement” by the Woman’s Club of Raleigh in 2010, and to the “Academy of Women” by the YWCA in 1998.
Rabbi Dinner graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a degree in Public Policy Analysis, and she received her Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.