“I thought I would never tell anyone what happened to me, and I was leaning into all the tropes of what motherhood was supposed to be like,” she said.
In 2005, she founded Nachshon Minyan, an unaffiliated minyan without walls.
Ever since Rabbi Alan Kalinsky was a child growing up in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, he knew he wanted to make a big impact on the world.
A longtime social justice advocate, Judaism’s emphasis on treating others with respect and dignity is what drew her to the rabbinate in the first place.
At Milken, Finkelstein puts his pastoral skills to good use, whether he’s talking with students, colleagues or parents.
Yiftach was so inspired by Hasidic teachings and his encounters with the Rebbe and his teachers at yeshiva that he decided to become ordained.
While education is about innovation, Schwarzberg said that the way Shalhevet keeps teens connected to their Judaism is simple: through learning Torah.
What matters most to Shapiro is that when people come to Temple Akiba, they feel at home.
Rabbi Mari Chernow, the senior rabbi of Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH), sums up her job in one word: Relationships.
While Kligfeld, the senior rabbi at Temple Beth Am (TBA) in Los Angeles, cherishes the Jewish tradition, he is open to new and innovative ways for people to connect to the sacred.
