Rabbi Lila Kagedan, a recent graduate of Yeshivat Maharat, is the first person ordained at the Orthodox women’s seminary to adopt the title of rabbi and to be hired as such by an Orthodox synagogue--the Mount Freedom Jewish Center in Randolph, New Jersey. Lila is also a clinical ethicist and chaplain who sits on ethics committees of major hospitals, hospices, and academic institutions and has created curricula and taught courses in the field of bioethics. She has also taught Talmud, ethics, and Jewish studies in a variety of formal and informal settings and has written and lectured on the topics of medicine and Jewish law, Jewish ethics, as well as on topics relating to women and Judaism/Jewish practice.