Rabbi Jill L. Maderer

Rabbi Jill Maderer standing in a black blazer and smiling.

Rabbi Jill L. Maderer served on the CCAR Task Force for the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate, has served as faculty at URJ Camp Harlam, and serves as the senior rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, a community she has served since her ordination from HUC in 2001.

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Purim

Vashti is Now: Accountability in the Reform Movement and in Our Communities

Rabbi Jill L. Maderer

March 3, 2023

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It is undisputed: the Purim story is implausible—never happened. Megillat Esther/the Book of Esther is a farce. A text for a ridiculous time when the Jewish