Martha Bergadine

Jewish Communities in Asia, Panel

Sunday, May 3rd, 3 pm

Rabbi Martha Bergadine has served as the Education and Programming Director of The UJC since 2009. She brings with her an extensive background in Youth and Adult Education having served as the Director of Formal Teen Programs for the Bureau of Jewish Education in San Francisco, as the Rabbi-Educator at Beth Shalom Synagogue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and as a faculty member of URJ Camp Jacobs. She also taught for several years in Florence Melton Adult Mini-Schools in San Francisco, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge. Before coming to Hong Kong, she was the Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge. She has also served as the rabbi of Reform congregations in San Francisco and Mandeville, Louisiana.

She was ordained by The Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1996.