Rabbi Margie Klein Ronkin

Rabbi Margie Klein Ronkin serves as the spiritual leader ofCongregation Sha’arei Shalom in Ashland, MA. She is also Director of Clergy and Leadership Development for the Essex County Community Organization, a member of the PICO Network. Rabbi Margie is the founder of Moishe Kavod House in Boston, a community of over 600 Jews in their 20s and 30s dedicated to Tikkun Olam. She is co-editor ofRighteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice (Jewish Lights), and is a member of theSynagogue3000 Emergent Communities Leadership Network. A graduate ofYale and Hebrew College Rabbinical School, in 2003-2004 Rabbi Margie founded and directed Project Democracy, a national youth voting initiative that mobilized 97,000 college students to vote. She has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the LA Times, CNN, and Newsweek for her faith-based social justice work, and was invited to the White House for her leadership.