After 29 years leading Temple Beth Ohr, Rabbi Goldmark retired. 

“Hashem gave all of us talents to be able to make this place better — always guided by the Torah. That is what Hashem put us here to do. What a beautiful people we are.” 

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.