Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez
Core Semikha, Class of 2018

Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez is an engaging Jewish educator, dynamic programmer, and passionate community builder. She works to ensure that our Jewish communal organizations are more intentional - more intentionally Jewish, more intentionally diverse, more intentionally equitable.
Rabba Melissa is currently serving as the Manager of the Jewish Camp Initiative at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Clergy Advisory Chair for MACoM (Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah). She was also amongst the first cohort of women in the Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta’s ACT: Agents of Change Training and is now a trustee. (Rabba Melissa is also involved in a number of other local, regional, and national projects.)
Rabba Melissa received semikha (rabbinic ordination) from Yeshivat Maharat in 2018 and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois in 2006. She has also learned intensively at Nishmat and Pardes in Jerusalem and worked for JEWISHcolorado, JCC Manhattan, Hillel International, and Global Day of Jewish Learning.
publications and media
Title | Type | Category | Topic | Year |
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Power Hour of Torah - High Holiday 5782 Edition | Multimedia; Dvar Torah | Video Divrei Torah; Panels and Discussions; Holiday | Yamim Noraim | 5782/2021 |
Abortion is a Religious Right | In the News | Abortion | February 16, 2021 | |
Life, Death, or Both? | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Chayei Sarah | 2017/5778 |
Save the World - Together | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Pinchas | 2017/5777 |
Memories and Journeys | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Devarim | 2019/5779 |
Arba Minim, Arba Devarim | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Sukkot / Simkhat Torah | 2017/5778 |
Love, Light and Latkes | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Chanukah | 2018/5779 |
Celebrating Unity: How the Four Mitzvot Bring Us Together | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Purim | 2016/5776 |
International Women's Talmud Day - Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez | Multimedia | Video Divrei Torah | 2020/5780 | |
From the Beit Midrash to the Boardroom - An Exploration of Jewish Leadership | Multimedia | Panels and Discussions | 2018/5779 | |
Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez - 2018 Yeshivat Maharat Semikha Ceremony | Multimedia | Graduations | Sixth Semikha Ceremony | June 18, 2018 |
Aseret Yemei Teshuva 5779/2018 - Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez '18 | Multimedia; Holiday | Video Divrei Torah; Holiday | Rosh Hashana; Yom Kippur | 2018/5779 |
Metzora and Mashiach | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Tazria; Metzora | 2018/5778 |
A Chanukah Message from Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Chanukah | December 9, 2020 |
Framing Our Communal Grief | In the News | May 7, 2020 |
mentions
Title | Publication | Published |
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Making the World a Better Place | Unorthobox | August 1, 2022 |
Abortion is a Religious Right | Atlanta Jewish Times | February 16, 2021 |