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Analia Bortz | |
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Personal | |
Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Religion | Judaism |
Spouse | Rabbi Mario Karpuj |
Alma mater | OR-ZSE, Hungary |
Occupation | Rabbi and bio-ethicist Founder co-Director Center for Ethics, The Vatican-Universidad Abarvanel- Seminario Rabinico LatinoAmericano |
Synagogue | Congregation Or Hadash Founder Rabbi Emerita Congregation Or Hadash |
Analia Bortz (born February 1967) [1] is a medical doctor with postdoctoral studies in bioethics. She became the first female Latin American rabbi when ordained in Jerusalem at the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano in 1994. [2] [3] In 2003, she and her husband, Rabbi Mario Karpuj, founded Congregation Or Hadash in Sandy Springs, Georgia. In 2018 Rabbi Dr. Analia Bortz was chosen as 1 of the most influential women in the world by the BBC. In 2023 Rabbi Dr. Bortz became the Founding co-director at the Center for Ethics at the Vatican and the University Abarvanel- Seminario Rabinico LatinoAmericano. In February 2024 Rabbi Dr. Analia Bortz launched the first Center for Ethics at the Vatican, in collaboration with Pope Francis, and Monseñor Vicenzo Paglia.
Bortz was born in February 1967 in Buenos Aires to two doctors as parents. Her maternal grandparents emigrated to Argentina from Poland between the two World Wars, and her paternal great-grandparents emigrated from Russia in 1881 as early Jewish gauchos. She grew up in a very Zionist Jewish community and attended a Jewish day school. When Bortz was 14, she met Mario Karpuj, her future husband, when he was on a school trip to Buenos Aires. They married about eight years later. [4]
Due to her familial background, Bortz began studying medicine. [4] Early in her education, she became interested in a more holistic and spiritual approach to the human body, which was not addressed in medical school until the fourth year. Based on this interest, Bortz began sitting in on classes at the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano during her time as a medical student at the University of Buenos Aires. [5] She continued her medical studies, earning her medical degree in 1990,[ citation needed ] and was ordained as a rabbi four years later. [5] She obtained her PhD in Ethics from the Catholic University of Valparaiso. [4] [6]
In the aftermath of the AMIA bombing, Bortz and Karpuj were actively involved in identifying bodies and supporting the deceaseds' loved ones. At the time, they had one child and decided they did not want to raise their family there. They moved to Chile, where they had another child. Five years later, the immigrated to the United States, settling in Atlanta, Georgia. [4] They worked at Ahavath Achim Synagogue for three years before establishing their synagogue, Congregation Or Hadash in 2003. [7] [4]
In 2004, Bortz joined the second cohort of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem's Rabbinic Leadership Initiative, graduating as a Senior Rabbinic Fellow in 2007. [8] Bortz is a 2017 graduate and facilitator of the Center for Compassionate Integrity and Secular Ethics at Life University. She also taught at the Florence Melton Adult School, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem project.
As a vocal activist against anti-Semitism, Bortz has spoken twice at the UN (2015 and 2016) [9]
In 2017, Bortz publishedThe Voice of Silence: A Rabbi's Journey into a Trappist Monastery and Other Contemplation (2017), which is about her silent retreat at the Christian monastery called Monastery of the Holy Spirit. [10] She went there after having vocal cord strain and polyps and being advised to stop speaking for a long time. [10]
In 2020, Bortz and Karpuj moved to Israel. [7]
As a doctor and rabbi, Bortz has worked in bioethics. She helped create the Bioethics Committees in Chile and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. [6]
Bortz founded the Jewish Fertility Foundations of Atlanta and "Hope for Seeds" for couples struggling with infertility and sterility. [6]
Bortz is an active member of JScreen advocating for research and prophylaxis of genetic disorders with greater incidence in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. [9]
In 2017, Bortz co-founded "BaKeN (in the Nest): "בריאות-קהילה-נפש", an initiative to create positive and loving enforcement for those with mental health illness and for caregivers who support them, combating the societal stigmatization of mental illness. [11]
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