Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas

RABBI ZAHARA DAVIDOWITZ-FARKAS, BCJC, is a Jewish chaplain and rabbi based in New York and a contributor to Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and Chaplain’s Handbook.

Davidowitz-Farkas served as the founding executive director of Disaster Chaplaincy Services, New York, and responded to the 9/11 attacks in New York City beginning September 12, 2001. She subsequently served as director of the American Red Cross’s Spiritual Care Long-Term Recovery program in New York City and holds a longtime membership on the ARC’s Spiritual Care Response Team. She has served as director of the New York Board of Rabbis Chaplaincy Program.

Davidowitz-Farkas served as dean of the Rabbinic Seminary at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, the first woman to hold that position.

Zahara lives in New York.

Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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