Since May 2018, Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields proudly serves as the first rabbi in the position of Executive Director of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, a role she dreamt of holding - the ability to spearhead the organization which for over 100 years has been engaging, enriching and empowering Conservative Jewish woman. Previously Rabbi Wolintz-Fields was the Vice-President for Congregational Engagement at ITC, Israel Tour Connection, and for eighteen years, served as a congregational rabbi and educational director in Toms River, NJ, Grayslake, IL and Long Grove, IL. Born in Brooklyn, she graduated from the Double Degree Program at Barnard College and List College, and majored in Religion and Talmud.  She studied for nine years at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where in addition to her BA in Talmud, she earned an MA in Jewish Women’s Studies and Rabbinic Ordination and an honorary Doctor of Divinity. 

 

Rabbi Wolintz-Fields has served as the co-chair of the Rabbinical Assembly’s Women's Committee and served on the Rabbinical Assembly Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and the Rabbinical Assembly Executive Committee. Rabbi Wolintz-Fields served on the Ramah Sports Academy Advisory Committee and currently serves on the American Friends of Neve Hanna Board, the Johns Hopkins University Hillel Board and the Executive Council of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. 

 

She has been invited to deliver Opening Prayers at the United States House of Representatives, the New Jersey Senate, the New Egypt Speedway, and the Ocean County College Commencement.

 

Together with her husband Jonathan, they are the proud parents of three children, and live in Ocean Township, New Jersey.