Kadima Office Staff & Rabbis

Rabbi David (he/him) joined Kadima in 2015. He has worked with a number of Jewish organizations and agencies in the Seattle area as an educator, spiritual leader, officiant, pastoral counselor, community organizer, interfaith partner, public speaker, and clergy activist. Prior work includes pre-school assistant teacher, produce clerk, cashier, educator, camp counselor, teen program director, non-profit administrator, pizza delivery, and Jewish community organizer.

Receiving his bachelor of science in business management from the University of Florida where he marched in the marching band, and his rabbinic ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Rabbi David has served as co-chair of the Washington Coalition of Rabbis, a founding member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, a leader interfaith justice work, member of local task forces about antisemitism, and co-chair of the Tikkun Olam Commission of Reconstructing Judaism. He is a public endorser of Real Rent Duwamish.

​Growing up in Westchester County, New York; Manhattan, NYC; and Parkland, Florida, Rabbi David's roots are Ashkenazi cultural familial Judaism. His ancestors empower him to build Jewish community with purpose, justice, healing, and solidarity. His partner and kids teach him humility, play, healthy living, and connection.
Rabbi David Basior
​Rabbi & Acting Director
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You can read writings by or about Rabbi David on the Kadima blog, South Seattle Emerald, Real Change, Crosscut, The Seattle Times, Jewish in Seattle Magazine, Sojourners, Youtube, Facebook, and more.

Rabbi May Ye (she/her) is a Chinese-American Jew from unceded Wabanaki land. A weaver of tradition and fashioner of new liturgy and ritual, she seeks to center and highlight the experiences of those who have been disenfranchised and marginalized from Judaism and Jewish spaces. A passionate activist, she explores how to decouple Judaism from Zionism and is an ardent supporter of Palestinian liberation. 

Rabbi May is a 2023 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC). She organizes with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and is honored to sit on JVP’s national rabbinical council. She also volunteers as a movement chaplain.

From 2023-2024 Rabbi May worked with Mending Minyan as their inaugural rabbi. She was also the 2023-2024 Walter and June Keener Wink fellow with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. 

As a rabbinical student, Rabbi May worked as a rabbinical intern at Tzedek Chicago and for Aurora Levins Morales on new liturgy that centers the voices of indigenous Jews and Jews of Color. She also served as a teacher for Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy, as a climate justice fellow with POWER, an interfaith social justice organization in Philadelphia, and as a chaplain at Yale New Haven Health.
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Rabbi May is the founder of the Person of Color Havurah at Kol Tzedek Synagogue. In May 2022 she received the Tikkun Olam award from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College “for her inspiring & passionate Palestine Liberation rabbinate and for connecting our politics to the way that we pray.” She is also the 2023 recipient of the Rabbi Devora Bartnoff Prize for Spiritually Motivated Social Action. 
Rabbi May Ye
​Associate Rabbi &
​Director of Member Development
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Want to learn more about Rabbi May?
Check out her website.
Sarah Edelstein (she/they) is an educator, artist, songleader, Judaic scholar, and camp kid, raised in the once-sleepy town of Encinitas, CA. She has lived a lot of places and worn a lot of hats: classroom teacher, shaliach tzibbur, b’mitzvah tutor, program director, lifecycle officiant, community organizer, and freelancer/small business owner. Always, and everywhere, Jewish life and learning has been her center.

Sarah spent her formative years working in Jewish camps and year-round youth programs. Songleading and informal Jewish education are her roots. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in Jewish Studies in 2013. She went on to complete a fellowship at Temple Beth Israel in Melbourne, Australia. She later served as a religious school educator at Beth Sholom in Memphis, TN. 

Somewhat by accident, Sarah spent much of the last decade as a self-trained artist, illustrator, and full-time small business owner. Her work has been featured by Jewish Voice for Peace, The Stranger, Jewish Women’s Archive, The Jewish Museum, and in the Radical Jewish Calendar. 

Sarah and her husband Nick joined Kadima in 2022. They live on the north side with their little dog, Santiago. Sarah enjoys long walks, deep breaths, new school supplies, the color yellow, and weird books.

Sarah Edelstein
​Education Director
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​Schedule a one-on-one with Sarah

Makenna (she/they)
Communications Manager & Admin Specialist
​                  office@kadima.org

Ashley (she/her)
Finance Manager
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