The Lebovitzes and Goldberg-Polins have been friends for more than a decade

“The only way we Jews can grow and survive is by bringing new people into Judaism and the Jewish people.”

In 2010, when Rabbi Joel Rembaum retired after leading Temple Beth Am — his childhood synagogue — for 25 years, it felt like the end of an era. It was also the start of a new one.

He’s a globetrotting mohel, serves as a dayan (judge of a Jewish court) and he launched the Jewish French Community Center.

Clearly, she loves her chosen path.

When Rabbi Daniel Freedman returned to Temple Akiba in the spring to oversee the Culver City Reform synagogue’s religious school program, he brought with him new, groundbreaking viewpoints.

When she was 45, the London-born Silver gave up her career as an attorney and law professor in England to enter rabbinic school in America.

“Camp was where I felt like I could be Jewish.”