[2][3][4][5][6][7] This occurred when Mount Freedom Jewish Center in New Jersey hired Kagedan to join their "spiritual leadership team.
[4][2] Lila Kagedan is the first woman with the title rabbi to be hired by an American Open Orthodox Jewish congregation.
[10] Prior to her ordination as rabbi, Kagedan studied at Midreshet Lindenbaum, an Israeli institution of higher learning for Orthodox women.
[16] In 2011, Kagedan founded the Sulam School in Brookline, Massachusetts, a K-5 program that offers immersive Judaic studies in a pluralistic environment.
[17] In 2016 Mount Freedom Jewish Center in New Jersey, which is Open Orthodox, stated that they had hired Kagedan to join their "spiritual leadership team.