Elana Kanter was a member of the first class of women at the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbinical School, where she was ordained in 1989. For the last twenty years, she has been involved in Jewish day school education, with a brief period of service as an intern chaplain at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 1998, she received the Covenant Award for Exceptional Jewish Educators. Rabbi Kanter currently serves as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Jess Schwartz Jewish Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and co-rabbi of The New Shul in Scottsdale, Arizona.