Rabbi Michal Woll
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In August 2025, the Rutland Jewish Center welcomed Rabbi Michal Woll as our spiritual leader.
Raised in a Reform synagogue in Chicago with a dynamic music program, she has been singing in shul since she was eight years old. Prior to joining Shir Hadash in 2017, she has served congregations in Vermont, Michigan and Milwaukee. Rabbi Michal Woll brings her passion for music, teaching, and creating ritual, and deep appreciation of Judaism. She has maintained her interest in medical ethics and end-of-life care. As a rabbi, she integrates her passions for music, movement, learning, self discovery, pastoral care, and community building.
A gifted rabbi, liturgist, pastoral counselor, physical therapist, and yogi with 25 years experience and three advanced degrees.
After graduating from Northwestern University and M.I.T. in bioengineering she worked in the medical device industry developing dialysis and burn care products. There she discovered a passion for medical ethics and quality of life issues. eventually turning to clinical medicine and chaplaincy. After years of lay leadership in her communities she entered the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, in Philadelphia, graduating in 2007.
Rabbi Woll was active in the Interfaith Council of Greater Milwaukee and Tikkun Ha-Ir/Repair our City and is affiliated nationally with T'ruah: The Rabbinical Call for Human Rights as well as Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action.
She now lives in Middlebury, Vermont with her husband, writer and publisher Jon M. Sweeney, and their daughter Sima.
Raised in a Reform synagogue in Chicago with a dynamic music program, she has been singing in shul since she was eight years old. Prior to joining Shir Hadash in 2017, she has served congregations in Vermont, Michigan and Milwaukee. Rabbi Michal Woll brings her passion for music, teaching, and creating ritual, and deep appreciation of Judaism. She has maintained her interest in medical ethics and end-of-life care. As a rabbi, she integrates her passions for music, movement, learning, self discovery, pastoral care, and community building.
A gifted rabbi, liturgist, pastoral counselor, physical therapist, and yogi with 25 years experience and three advanced degrees.
After graduating from Northwestern University and M.I.T. in bioengineering she worked in the medical device industry developing dialysis and burn care products. There she discovered a passion for medical ethics and quality of life issues. eventually turning to clinical medicine and chaplaincy. After years of lay leadership in her communities she entered the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, in Philadelphia, graduating in 2007.
Rabbi Woll was active in the Interfaith Council of Greater Milwaukee and Tikkun Ha-Ir/Repair our City and is affiliated nationally with T'ruah: The Rabbinical Call for Human Rights as well as Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action.
She now lives in Middlebury, Vermont with her husband, writer and publisher Jon M. Sweeney, and their daughter Sima.