Scholar in Residence

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Danya Ruttenberg Phone: Email: danyaruttenberg@GMAIL.COM Website (for further information): http://danyaruttenberg.net Memberships: Rabbinical Assembly
I am available for: Weekends,Individual lectures / concerts,Lecture series / concert series,Consult on lecture / concert programming
Biography: Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is the author of Surprised By God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion (Beacon Press), nominated for the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature and a 2009 Hadassah Book Club selecton, as well as editor of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism (NYU Press) and Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism (Seal Press). Rabbi Ruttenberg is also co-editor, with Rabbi Elliot Dorff, of three books for the Jewish Publication Society’s Jewish Choices/Jewish Voices series: Sex and Intimacy, War and National Security, and Social Justice. She’s also a contributing editor to Lilith and the academic journal Women and Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal and is on the editorial board of Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. In 2010, the Jewish Week recognized her as one of the “36 Under 36″ (36 most influential leaders under age 36) and the Forward recognized her as one of the top 50 most influential women rabbis. Her work has appeared in a wide range of venues, fromSalon and The San Francisco Chronicle to Best Jewish Writing series, the new edition of Encyclopedia Judaica, and Bitch magazine'sBitchfest. Before receiving her rabbinic ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, she grew up in the Chicago area, received her B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University and worked in San Francisco as a freelance writer. Rabbi Ruttenberg lives in the Chicago area with her husband and sons, serves as campus rabbi at Northwestern University’s Hillel, and teaches and lectures nationwide.
My topics include:
Sex and Judaism Judaism and feminism Parenting and spirituality Transforming organizations through engaging those "on the margins Judaism and the "next generation" of Jewish adults
My general fee range is $2000+; details:
For an individual lecture, my fee is $1001-1500; details: Fee ranges from $1500 up, depending on a number of factors, including travel required, logistics, context, etc.
For a series of lectures, my fee is $2000+; details:
For consulting, my fee is $1501-2000; details: Depends on what the project is! This is very hard to guess at without more information.
My quoted fees include travel: No