https://rabbiemilysegal.com/home daily 1.0 2025-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632283503875-NR73JXOMXE7CBDI4VSUB/headshot.jpg Home - About Rabbi Emily Segal (she, her) is the Senior Rabbi of the Temple Chai in Phoenix, Arizona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632284666254-6LTGIBRT0USJ14PBG8XJ/2nd+day+RH.jpg Home - Teaching One of the true joys of Rabbi Segal’s rabbinate is to learn with individuals of all ages, life stages, and backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632285012950-NQKDB42RBZAC74YFEQCH/mountain+minyan.jpg Home - Innovation We engage differently with Judaism than our parents and grandparents did. Therefore today’s synagogue is not - and cannot be - the synagogue of ages past. Rabbi Segal believes in the sanctity of our precious traditions and values as well as the joy of creating new meaning, together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632284442012-ZHGKP3UWGYRIF9OTBUO8/march+for+our+lives.jpg Home - Justice Rabbi Segal believes that to be Jewish and to be a leader means to create healing and wholeness in our broken world. Over the years she has spoken out and advocated regarding immigration, homelessness, reproductive justice, LGBTQIA+ equality, and environmental justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632285309052-UJOLZLU0M0PPFJE60EOJ/WRN+board.jpg Home - National Leadership Rabbi Segal currently serves on the boards of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Women’s Rabbinic Network as the representative liaison between the two national organizations. Rabbi Segal also has served in committees and task forces of the CCAR and WRN and is a member of the Phoenix Board of Rabbis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632285593166-9YX48VFSL97FYXGBKYS4/family.jpg Home - My Journey My Jewish journey began in a small, tight-knit community in Virginia as I witnessed my father convert to Judaism. The power of personal relationship and interwoven intellectual and spiritual engagement in Judaism has moved me since my youth. https://rabbiemilysegal.com/about daily 0.75 2025-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632286381575-7G34BYWHWVAZ28O1HVFV/ketubah.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634276863397-P6TI4LC16AERNXJXK6KE/Israel.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632845315760-08LX2O6C9RR5RRSH3L3W/Screen+Shot+2021-09-21+at+11.12.48+PM.png About - Balfour Brickner Clergy Fellowship The Balfour Brickner Clergy Fellowship is designed exclusively to help rabbis and cantors bring social justice closer to the center of congregational life. The fellowship roots social justice in Jewish text and tradition, training clergy to be powerful social justice leaders and advocates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632859507804-KISZMUGX3TZETGLP9YAX/CLI.jpg About - Clergy Leadership Incubator Fellowship The Clergy Leadership Incubator (CLI) is a two-year fellowship grounded in Adaptive Leadership. This incubator supports trains, and encourages rabbis serving congregations in areas of innovative thinking, change management, and institutional transformation. During this fellowship each rabbi works on an innovation project. Rabbi Segal’s innovation project centered on building Jewish community within and between the towns that make up the Roaring Fork Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632860447548-6VZQCL66KTT3IAAAF2ZK/northwestern+thing.png About - Executive Scholar Certificate in Nonprofit Management From Northwestern’s Kellogg School of business, the Executive Scholar Certificate in Nonprofit Management is designed to develop the capacity of senior nonprofit leaders, building the skills and background necessary to meet this era of dramatic social and economic change with transformative leadership. Rabbi Segal has studied fundraising, leading change and innovation, supervising and developing high-performing people, and executive leadership dynamics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1632861168028-1MNXA2J56DH123GRCALK/CCAR-logo.png About - Certificate in Supervision The Rabbi As Supervisor courses and certificate offered by the CCAR (Central Conference of American Rabbis) build rabbis’ skills in coaching and managing not only their own performance but that of others. This program is tailored to the specific needs and challenges of Jewish organizational and congregational life. https://rabbiemilysegal.com/justice daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634191090604-XRM1XYP2F9A3W1WO4355/march+for+our+lives.png Justice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634191975421-6HT3K7PVSK8Q3KH44ZJ8/homeless%2Bcooking.jpg Justice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634192020660-IWD2ARQ6SO3FYJHOEG3F/109715283_4078983455476259_9180975013561524891_n.jpg Justice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634192051520-AKEB7QP4RUKLGLDFNLA6/pittsburgh.jpg Justice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634223678800-4P88Q6SS4GI15ZSW4S27/l%27taken.jpg Justice https://rabbiemilysegal.com/innovation daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634188281459-P7O9DZFQF0GXTP57M3T5/chesed+circle.png Innovation & Change Created during the pandemic to help community members connect with and help each other, the Chesed Circle is a group of volunteers dedicated to easing the burden of those going through difficult times and making sure they feel thought of by their community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634188379642-QK3241JBWCTA84MAWUT2/kol+nidre.jpg Innovation & Change In the fall of 2020, we could not safely be together as a community to sing and pray in the same room. To preserve and deepen a beloved congregational tradition, Rabbi Segal created a reflective service of all music, performed by a local professional string quintet. It was a moving experience and a precious opportunity to experience Kol Nidre together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634188547601-9144NGFI7OF6T0JSHGKR/elul+insights.png Innovation & Change Now a beloved tradition in anticipation of the High Holy Days, Rabbi Segal created a daily inspirational email series for the entire month of Elul. Each year has a special theme and reflections are written by members of the congregation. It is spiritually engaging and a wonderful community builder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634188685303-AQZLY8SOP59A9YTDXSL9/park+playdate.png Innovation & Change What better way to connect with young families than through play? Meet people where they are in an informal environment and relationships will blossom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634223106429-2J1VOA2JY5N42LNIZIBC/Seeking+the+Sacred.jpg Innovation & Change Rabbi Segal provided leadership to join together with clergy women from local communities to present a meaningful spiritual series for women during the spring of 2021. The programs engaged more than 100 women and have led to requests for further programs which are forthcoming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634222926736-1FV52HDPZKWZF8WC0UH4/bim+bam+baby.jpg Innovation & Change Based on studies that show that families are most open to new and lasting connections when their children are 0-2 years old, Rabbi Segal secured grant funding for energetic music classes for babies including low-barrier Jewish content. The classes were incredibly successful in drawing in new, previously unaffiliated families in a lasting way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634188793790-DPD2YF9CD6HDY047EH84/tu+b%27shvat+seder.jpg Innovation & Change Rabbi Segal created an interactive presentation and arranged a catered meal for the community’s first (now annual) Tu B’shvat Seder for adults. Since Tu B’shvat occurs during wintertime, we made it an Aprés ski celebration! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634188934196-3Q2QXZGN3MLDQS5T9USJ/prayer+lab.png Innovation & Change In partnership with our 2019 summer cantorial student intern, Rabbi Segal created a series of Prayer Lab Shabbat experiences, in which we turned our sanctuary into a laboratory for spiritual experimentation where we played with the boundaries of the secular and the holy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634190021732-DKEYPJAG4SKD28K9IGCG/nefesh+mountain.jpg Innovation & Change In the fall of 2020, Rabbi Segal spearheaded an incredible virtual event that brought together more than 50 small congregations from across the country for a lively and spiritual Simchat Torah concert with Nefesh Mountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634192241552-BPOKB438J6PP8AMJ3W42/women%27s+seder.jpg Innovation & Change Rabbi Segal gathered an intergenerational group of women to plan and lead the congregation’s first ever Women’s Seder, including a delicious meal, a collaboratively created Women’s Seder Haggadah, and meaningful, innovative ritual. https://rabbiemilysegal.com/national-leadership daily 0.75 2025-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634271716729-HVYTWTNC62PBE10A6AI3/Screen+Shot+2021-09-20+at+12.24.07+PM.png National Leadership https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634273624424-8KNCUFV1P5OZYE7T2NRS/WRN+right+to+choose.jpg National Leadership - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634273524204-XCYO0DLJNJOXBY0N4LNM/WRN+board+1.jpg National Leadership - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://rabbiemilysegal.com/my-journey daily 0.75 2025-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634270435079-9VT3B6XOE7HXVXL3H52F/holding+Torah.jpg My Journey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634270656498-EMZENHVC2RZXWIDXGHH9/passover.png My Journey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1634276684594-U9ODGKXC2SKM458HFIR9/toklat+3.jpg My Journey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://rabbiemilysegal.com/teaching daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/3450da30-8ea1-4930-b844-b249f99cc38f/Gender+and+jewish+life+graphic.png Teaching Gender & Jewish Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/ce7c1c14-15f0-4256-8861-42c05b45cafa/jewish+ethics+of+vaccination+c+%281%29%5B12%5D.png Teaching The Jewish Ethics of Vaccination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/64d2f189-cf59-4627-a0dc-1df99b475457/Dissenters%2C+Agitators+%26+Firebrands+%286%29%5B73%5D.png Teaching Dissenters, Agitators & Firebrands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/69b2588b-3fba-4f0d-8433-463451de5279/mussar+%282%29%5B38%5D.png Teaching Mussar: Jewish Mindfulness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/b2da9b5d-2b85-4df6-bba5-cacef288dca5/Here%27s+Why+You%27re+Wrong.png Teaching Here's Why You're Wrong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/1f56fb74-7939-4113-a1e7-e6785b54cd32/dead+serious.png Teaching Dead Serious: In which we seriously talk about, well, death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/067a11e4-b8d6-4d8d-a361-42255a16fee2/Behind+the+Prayer+Book.png Teaching Behind the Prayerbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614a30f4689e637df9b355e0/656ce72c-9299-4b52-a57b-400450dfef36/Cbdale+Torah+Study+.png Teaching Carbondale Torah Study https://rabbiemilysegal.com/sermons daily 0.75 2021-11-10