Rabbi Appel is available to teach adult education classes and private tutoring in a variety of topics and settings. Topics include Jewish meditation; prayer leading; mystical and Chassidic spirituality; siddur; readings in Jewish feminism; theology; Judaism, food, and the environment; new approaches to the mikveh; Jewish pregnancy and childbirth; conversion; and more.
She is also a public speaker on topics including young adult outreach and engagement, antisemitism, design thinking toward more robust Jewish communities, relationship-based community-building, equity and inclusion in Jewish settings, and 21st century Jewish community.
Rabbi Appel has taught in a variety of settings, including:
- Hillel at the University of Toronto
- Beth Sholom Synagogue (Toronto)
- City Shul (Toronto)
- First Narayever Congregation (Toronto)
- Adath Israel (Toronto)
- Beth Tzedec Congregation (Toronto)
- Congregation Dorshei Emet (Montreal)
- Shaare Zion Congregation (Montreal)
- Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom (Montreal)
- MIT Hillel (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Amherst College Hillel (Amherst, Mass.)
- The National Havurah Institute (Rindge, New Hampshire)
- Congregation Dorshei Tzedek (Newton, Mass.)
- Temple Israel (Boston, Mass.)
- Panim Summer JAM (Washington, D.C.)
