Background
Tina Grimberg was born in 1963 in Kiev, Ukraine.
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After she attended the Hebrew Union College’s Jewish Institute of Religion, she received her rabbinic ordination in 2001.
Career
She has been active in the movement against poverty in Canada. Youth and Early Her family moved to the United States when she was sixteen, and immediately became involved in the Jewish community of Indianapolis. She developed a passionate interest in the Jewish heritage that was so hard to access in her childhood.
Grimberg initially trained and worked as a family therapist specializing in women"s issues and domestic violence.
In the same time period, she facilitated workshops for interfaith couples at the Jewish Community Center of the Upper West Side. Later, Rabbi Grimberg married Moshe Shizgal, a Canadian, and they moved to Canada.
Since 2002 she has served as rabbi for Congregation Darchei Noam, the Reconstructionist synagogue of Toronto. In 2006–2007, she introduced a campaign against the violence against women in the Jewish community in partnership with Jewish Family & Child Service in Toronto and Jewish Women International of Canada.
In March 2009, she participated in a multifaith prayer vigil in front of the Ontario parliament, in solidarity with the poor of Toronto.
On November 18, 2010, the ISARC Forum drew 75 religious leaders on current strategies to counter poverty.
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Membership
In 2008, she became a member of Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC).
