Rabbi Shira Stern was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1983 and earned her Doctor of Ministry from HUC-JIR in 2004. She created the Human Relations commission in Monroe while she led a congregation in Monroe Township, was a member of the county and state Human Rights Commissions. She was the Director of Community Chaplaincy of Middlesex County, NJ and was the Director of the Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care, part of the HealthCare Chaplaincy, providing programs for rabbinic and cantorial students, chaplains and clergy in the field.
She was trained by the American Red Cross (ARC) to serve on the SAIR team - Spiritual Air Incident Response Team -, 2001- present (now the Critical Incident Response Team) and worked for four months at the Liberty State Park Family Assistance Center in the aftermath of 9/11, the Boston Marathon explosion, Super Storm Sandy, as well as local deployments. She currently serves the ARC as co-lead advisor of New Jersey.
Rabbi Stern is certified by the DRCC (Disaster Response Crisis Counselor Spiritual Care provider) and co-leads training of chaplains in Disaster Spiritual Care in NJ.
She is a Board Certified Chaplain and is a Past-President of the National Association of Jewish Chaplains, and is the current chair of their Ethics Committee. She has serving as one of their representatives on the Spiritual Care Collaborative, a conglomerate of chaplaincy organizations of North America. She has been a hospital and hospice chaplain, Director of the Joint Chaplaincy Program of Greater Middlesex County and the Director of the Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care in New York City, part of the HealthCare Chaplaincy.
She is now the Director of the Center for Pastoral Care and Counseling in Marlboro, NJ which provides individual and family therapy as well as chaplaincy services and serves as Rabbinic Associate at Temple Rodeph Torah in Marlboro, NJ.
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