Naomi Kalish
Rabbi Naomi Kalish is the Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of the Center for Pastoral Education and Assistant Professor of Pastoral Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in Interprofessional Education Faculty at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and teaches about spiritual care to healthcare students from diverse professional programs. She has taught chaplaincy courses at the Academy for Jewish Religion, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and Yeshivat Maharat. She has worked as a chaplain at Calvary Hospital, Roosevelt Hospital and New York Presbyterian. She is a certified educator through the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education and a board certified chaplain through Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains. She earned her PhD in Education and Jewish Studies at New York University. Her dissertation, “Caring and Belonging: Jewish and Clinical Pastoral Education, 1946-1990,” explores the experience of Jews in the changing religious landscape in America during the latter half of the twentieth century.