Authors
Rabbi Laura Geller, Rabbi Emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, was the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi. Named one of Newsweek’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America and by PBS’s Next Avenue as a 2017 Influencer in Aging, she was a cofounder of ChaiVillageLA and is the chair of the Synagogue Village Network. She served on the Corporation of Brown University, from where she graduated in 1971, and now serves on the boards of the Jewish Women’s Archive, CoGenerate (CoGenerate.org; formerly Encore.org), and the Active Aging Resource Network (ActiveAgingNetwork.org; formerly B3/The Jewish Boomer Platform). She was featured in the PBS documentary Jewish Americans, is the author of numerous articles in books and journals, and was on the editorial board of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary. Her book Getting Good at Getting Older, coauthored with her husband Richard Siegel, z”l, was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist in the category of Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice. She is the mother of Joshua and Elana Goldstein, the stepmother of Andy and Ruth Siegel, the grateful mother-in-law of Janelle Goldstein, Zach Rausnitz, and Will Swanson, and the very proud savta of Avery, Levi, Phoebe, Alice, and Nell. Please visit her website at www.rabbilaurageller.com.
Passionate about growth and innovation in Jewish life, Rabbi Beth Lieberman loves to build multigenerational faith communities and to mentor rising Jewish communal leaders. She has served both the Reform and Conservative Movements, and has worked extensively in the literary world around Jewish scholarship, culture, and practice. When she is not speaking about Moments That Matter, she is on campus at the Hebrew Union College serving as the seminary’s national Mercaz K’tivah director. Rabbi Lieberman is the current editor-in-chief of the CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. She lives with her family in California, dividing her time between Los Angeles and New York. Please visit her website at www.rabbibethlieberman.com.