Rabbi Amita Jarmon has arrived as Adas Yoshuron Synagogue’s first resident rabbi since the 1930s. Jarmon, 43, led services for the first time last week. She grew up in Amherst, Mass., and lived six years in Israel, where she trained as a physical therapist. She practiced for 11 years and studied for the past five at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. Adas Yoshuron is not formally affiliated with any of the major branches of Judaism, but liturgically the synagogue at 50 Willow St. is Conservative.

NEWS reporter Tom Groening