Rabbi Monica Kleinman currently serves as the Programs Associate for Pardes North America. A midwesterner, born and raised in southeastern Wisconsin, Rabbi Kleinman earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she double majored in Modern Hebrew and history. She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 2014. At that same time, she earned a Master’s in Education Administration with a concentration in Jewish Studies from Xavier University. She is a passionate Jewish educator whose goal is to help others find what they love about Judaism and embrace it as part of their everyday living. She and her husband, Rabbi Jon Kleinman, have been in Overland Park, Kansas since 2017 and since then have expanded their family to include their son Jacob, 2 1/2, and beagle Rosie.
Rabbi Monica Kleinman