Rabbi Helen Plotkin is the director of Mekom Torah, an online Jewish learning project for adults and families. She is a graduate of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she has taught Biblical Hebrew and other subjects. She co-founded the Swarthmore College Beit Midrash, and taught Biblical Hebrew and classical Jewish texts there for 20 years. She is a particular fan of the open-ended, imaginative arguments of the Jewish interpretive tradition. Before devoting herself to Jewish texts, she spent years studying ancient Chinese and pioneering the use of the internet in education.
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
