Scholar in Residence

Rabbi Miller is President of the Open Dor Foundation, Inc., reaching out to unaffiliated and marginally active Jews, as well as to non-Jews who are part of the Jewish family through marriage to a Jew or through Jewish ancestry.  She is also Rabbi Emerita at Adas Israel Congre­gation, Washington, D.C., where she served from her gradua­tion from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in June 1986 until June 2008, the longest pulpit tenure of any woman in the Conservative movement.  Rabbi Miller conducts High Holyday services at 6^th & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC, and teaches classes there as well as at other synagogues in the area.   The first woman in the United States to assume pulpit re­sponsibilities in a major Conservative congrega­tion, Rabbi Miller has served as President of the Washington-Baltimore Region of the Rabbinical Assembly.   As chair of the Rabbini­cal Assembly's Committee on Outreach and Conver­sion (1992-5, 2004-6), Rabbi Miller was also the first woman to be appoint­ed to head a national committee of the RA, as well as one of the first women to serve on the Rabbinical Assembly's Executive Council.  Rabbi Miller designed and led the first Jewish healing service in the Washington area, as well as the area's first Learners Minyan, and the first local Jewish workshops for engaged and expectant couples.   Other program­ming initiatives at the congregation include Hebrew and Jewish Literacy Courses, programs for singles, couples, and young families, Adult Bat Mitzvah, and Bikkur Holim committee, and outreach to young adults with mixed Jewish/non-Jewish ancestry.  A book of her collected sermons was published as On Wings Of Hope, and her writing has frequently appeared in publications such as Moment, the Forward, and Lilith.  In July 2010, the Forward named Rabbi Miller as one of the Sisterhood 50, its first list of the most influential women rabbis in the United States.

• Kiddush HaShem: Dying for G-d Maccabees, Masada, and Martyrdom Jewish Martyrdom From the Bible to Today
• Biblical Women When Bad Things Happen To Good Matriarchs Miriam in Midrash
• Be the Wise Child at Your Seder Exploring the Haggadah
• Intermarriage, Conversion, and Outreach: The Future of Our American Jewish Community Blood and Belief: Who is a Jew? What is Jewish?
• Jewish Women Today: Law, Lore, Liturgy, and Life Cycle