Rabbi/Cantor Bronwen Mullin

Rabbi/Cantor Bronwen Mullin is the cantor of Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington, Delaware and a national faculty member of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. She served as the rabbinic advisor for Carov, an independent mishkan with a mission in Jersey City (2021-2022), the rabbi of Congregation B’nai Jacob of Jersey City (2019-2021), and the Rabbinic Artist-in-Residence of Town & Village Synagogue and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (2017-2019). She is the co-founder of Meta-Phys Ed with performance artist/director Jesse Freedman. She received Rabbinic Ordination and an MA in Midrash from JTS (2017), and a BA in Theater and Religious Studies from Sarah Lawrence College (2006).

Rabbi Bronwen has held teaching positions at JTS, The Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, The Academy of Jewish Religion in New York, Art Kibbutz New York (where she also served as Artistic Director), the Romemu Yeshiva, the JCC of Manhattan, and the 14th Street Y. Rabbi Bronwen is a composer and playwright for musical theater and installation as well as a multi-instrumentalist.

Selected works include: “Chalom: A Dream Opera” (Hebrew/Aramaic, International Fringe Festival/FringeNYC 2012); “Bat Yiftach: A Tragic Punk Opera” (English/Hebrew, The Kreischer Mansion 2016), “Make Me Out of Clay” (composer, Cannonball Festival Philadelphia, PA 2022) and “Ca’asi Revaya: Nigunim For A Raging Heart” (album release Spring 2024). She was an inaugural fellow of the Hadar Rising Song Institute and the SVARA Teaching Kollel and a recipient of the JTS Innovation and Myers Family Grants. Judaism is Rabbi Bronwen’s favorite art form and she is honored to practice it.