Rabbi Breaks Barriers
Audio Interview by Jan Jaben-Eilon
April 19, 2011
The first female rabbi to serve as chaplain in the U.S. military.
In June, Rabbi Julie S. Schwartz will leave Atlanta’s Temple Emanu-El where she has served for 10 years. She will rejoin the faculty of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati where she will head the pastoral care and counseling program, which she established while on the faculty of the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism from 1989 to 1999.
Schwartz is a native of Cincinnati. She earned her bachelor’s from Northwestern University as a three-year graduate with a major in history. She was ordained as a rabbi from HUC-JIR, Cincinnati, in 1986. She served as a chaplain in the United States Navy upon her ordination. Schwartz was the first female rabbi to serve as a chaplain in the United States military and was stationed at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, Calif. At the conclusion of her three-year service in the Navy, Rabbi Schwartz received the Naval Commendation medal.
She was the third rabbi to be certified as a Clinical Pastoral Educator by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Educators, a multicultural, multifaith organization devoted to providing education and improving the quality of ministry and pastoral care offered by spiritual caregivers of all faiths. After receiving certification, she established HUC-JIR’s course of study in pastoral counseling for rabbinical students.
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Jan Jaben-Eilon was a founding staff writer of the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Since then, she has been the international editor of Advertising Age magazine and has written for such publications as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Journalism Review, and Consumer Reports. She is the author of soon-to-be-published (There is) Life After Cancer. Jan and her husband have homes in Atlanta and Jerusalem.
