Growing up, Valley Beth Shalom’s Assistant Rabbi Yael Aranoff dreamed of two contrasting careers — either becoming a veterinarian or a rabbi.

“Camp,” Rabbi Myra Meskin said, “is, and always has been, my primary interest.”

Keeping interest in the war alive and headlining the urgency of Israel’s needs drive him every morning.

Rabbi Brett Kopin has been teaching at the Milken Community School for more than three years,

Rabbi Eli Broner, the confident, imaginative, broadly educated and experienced ninth grade dean at Shalhevet High School, puts himself into his work.

Her title might read “Rabbi Cantor,” but Temple Judea’s Alison Wissot knows that’s backwards.

“I never thought I would be in a pulpit,”  Rabbi Gavriella Kornsgold said a year and a half after joining Sinai Temple, one of the community’s largest synagogues.  

When asked to define himself, Rabbi Sholom Rodal, the voluble leader of the Chabad of Mt. Olympus limited himself to 32 words: “You have to do what works for you, your personal style, your capabilities.”

The Matriarchs of Jewish history — Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah — have officially gained equality with the Patriarchs in Conservative Judaism, thanks to Rabbi Joel Rembaum, the emeritus rabbi at Temple Beth Am.

With his seventh wartime mission to Israel scheduled after Sukkot ends, Rabbi Kahn looked back on his work since Oct. 7, 2023.