Caryn Broit­man has served as the rab­bi of the Martha’s Vine­yard Hebrew Cen­ter since 2003. She is a grad­u­ate of Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty in the Com­par­a­tive Study of Reli­gion, and received her Rab­bini­cal Ordi­na­tion from the Recon­struc­tion­ist Rab­bini­cal Col­lege. She is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Moment Mag­a­zine and her work has been fea­tured on NPR sta­tion WCAI and on WMVY Radio. She lives on Martha’s Vineyard.