Understanding Gen Z: How will the next generation shape our Jewish world?

Join us for the 2023 Ruth and Bernard Levaur Contemporary Lecture with guest speaker Rabbi Debbie Pine, Campus Support Director for Hillel International.  Free and open to the public.  Seating is limited and reservations are encouraged.  Reception to follow.

Rabbi Debbie Pine has worked as a Campus Support Director for Hillel International since 2019, providing guidance, mentorship and support to Hillel Directors and their staff teams.  Rabbi Pine serves as the Campus Support Director to campuses in Baltimore and Florida, plus others.

Rabbi Pine was the Hillel Director at Tulane University in New Orleans from 2006-2009 and then at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from 2009-2019.  Rabbi Pine worked with the university and community in the rebuilding following Hurricane Katrina, including building a state-of-the-art new facility (opened 2011).  Under her leadership, Hopkins Hillel was recognized for Excellence in Student Engagement and Jewish Learning.

From 2018-2019, Rabbi Pine served as the Vice President of Strategic Philanthropy at The Associated, The Jewish Federation of Baltimore.

Starting in 1992, Rabbi Pine spent 13 years as a congregational rabbi, first at Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh and then at Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia as the rabbi educator.

Rabbi Pine and her husband, Rabbi Andrew Busch, look back warmly on their first years in the rabbinate at Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh as formative, inspiring, and deeply meaningful.  Both feel that their years at Rodef Shalom and interactions with colleagues, staff, and congregants continue to shape them as individuals and as rabbis.

Rabbis Pine and Busch are the parents of three grown children, 2 of whom were born in Pittsburgh.  Rabbi Pine was ordained at HUC-JIR in Cincinnati in 1992 after graduating from Oberlin College in 1987.