Maria Pulzetti

Maria is a student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she seeks to integrate her love of Torah into her work toward justice, dignity and wholeness for all people. She finds sacred connection in learning people’s stories and being present with them through times of challenge, transition and joy.  During Maria’s legal career, she worked at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia and as a public defender. Before that, she was the founding executive director of the Moscow-basedRussian Justice Initiative, a human-rights litigation project.  When she was 18, she co-founded the Day of Silence, a student-led day of action against the silencing and erasure of LGBTQ people in schools.  Maria is the author of Remember, Retell, Resist: Reading Difficult Biblical Passages.  Maria lives in Philadelphia with her wife and two children. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and her Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School. 

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Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

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