Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin

RABBI NINA BETH CARDIN is a rabbi, author, and environmental activist whose books include To Forever Inhabit This Earth, The Tapestry of Jewish Time and Tears of Sorrow, Seed of Hope.

Cardin was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1988 as part of the first class of women ordained in the Conservative movement, having previously earned an MA in Talmud and Rabbinics from JTS in 1979 and a degree in anthropology and religion from Connecticut College in 1975. She served as founding associate director of the National Center for Jewish Healing and as director of Jewish Life at the JCC of Greater Baltimore.

When she’s not writing, Cardin founded the Jewish Women’s Resource Center, the Baltimore Orchard Project, and the Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network. Environmental and Jewish spiritual themes run throughout her work.

Nina lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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