Rabbi Rachael Pass is the associate rabbi and manager of the spiritual counseling program at the T’Shuvah Center, a Jewish community for individuals in recovery from addiction of all kinds. She is a recent ordinand from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Rachael is currently studying for a second master’s degree at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Jewish Gender and Women’s Studies, focusing her research on queer and feminist philosophy, theology/thealogy, and ritual. She has written extensively on Jewish views of abortion, creative Jewish rituals including reclaiming mikveh, and feminist Jewish thought and Goddess-concepts. Rachael is passionate about intersectional feminism, Jewish ritual, and reading as many books as she can get her hands on.