Rabbi Judy Schindler

Rabbi Schindler is the Sklut Professor of Jewish Studies and Social Justice Lead and Jewish Scholar-in-Residence of the Stan Greenspon Holocaust and Social Justice Education Center at Queens University of Charlotte. She was named Rabbi Emerita of Temple Beth El in Charlotte, North Carolina, after serving as Senior Rabbi from 2003-2016 and as Associate Rabbi from 1998-2003. Prior to coming to Charlotte, she was an Associate Rabbi at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York.

Rabbi Schindler is a founding leader of the Charlotte Racial Justice Consortium (CRJC) — a partnership between Central Piedmont Community College, Johnson C. Smith University, Johnson & Wales University – Charlotte Campus, Queens University of Charlotte, and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte that trains student in racial equity and leadership skills and seeks to bring racial healing circles to Charlotte. She developed and helps run the Charlotte Black/Jewish Alliance for Black and Jewish young professionals.

Among Rabbi Schindler’s past leadership roles, she has served on the Executive Committee of the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice, on the Board of Restorative Justice CLT and as a member of the Israel + Reform Zionism Committee (formerly ARZA).  She is past co-President of the Women’s Rabbinic Network, former Trustee of the Reform Pension Board, served on the Board of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Coalition for Housing, and as co-chair of the Clergy Council of MeckMin (Charlotte’s interfaith organization).

She received the 2008 Humanitarian Award from the Charlotte Coalition for Social Justice, the 2008 Mecklenburg Ministries Interfaith Clergy Award, was selected as one of Charlotte’s USA 20: Celebrating Dynamic Women in 2010. Charlotte Woman of the Year 2011.