Rabbi Bronwen Mullin
Rabbi Bronwen Mullin, a Philadelphia native, received her BA in theater and religious studies from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA in Midrash and Rabbinic Ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Her organizational affiliations include The Conservative Yeshiva of Jerusalem, The Shalom Hartman Institute, The Open Center—Jerusalem, Encounter, The Jewish Dialogue Group, The Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE), The National Center for the Encouragement of Judaism (NCEJ), The National Havurah Institute (NHI), SVARA, Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, Art Kibbutz NY (where she also served as Artistic Director), the Jewish Theological Seminary, Birthright International, One Table, The Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, The Academy of Jewish Religion in New York, Kehillat Romemu, The Sixth Street Shul, Limmud NY and Philly, Nehirim, National Havurah, the JCC of Manhattan, the 14th Street Y, and Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and many others. R’Bronwen is also the co-founder of Meta-Phys Ed, a multidisciplinary performance group wrestling with religious texts. In the last 5 years R’Bronwen served as the first-ever appointed Rabbinic Artist-in-Residence at both the Jewish Theological Seminary and Town & Village Synagogue, creating diverse cultural events for and cultivating artistic community within the larger Jewish community. R’ Bronwen created the Turning-it-Out Thursdays series, the Artists’ Beit Midrash, Drink, Drash, and Draw!, and Prayer-for-the-People. She has been a featured teacher focusing on the intersection of midrash/classical Jewish commentary with contemporary performance and dramatic theory at a number of Jewish organizations, but perhaps R’Bronwen’s most meaningful work has been as the Director for the Center for Conversion to Judaism.