Sylvia Weisz Women’s Philanthropy invites you to a Susan S. Pritzker Series Event featuring a conversation with Rabbi Laura Geller on How to Reexamine the Map of Our Lives.
Who: Sylvia Weisz Women’s Philanthropy
What: 2024 Pritzker Series Event featuring Rabbi Laura Geller
When: Tuesday, January 30th | 11:00 AM Brunch • 11:30 AM Program
Where: At the Beverly Hills home of Janet Rosenblatt (Address provided prior to event)
Couvert: $36 per person
We look forward to seeing you on January 30th.
This event is at capacity. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please contact Lauren Shorten at LShorten@JewishLA.org or (323) 761-8306.
Rabbi Laura Geller, Emerita Rabbi of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, was the first woman to be selected through a national search to lead a major metropolitan synagogue as Senior Rabbi. She was twice named one of Newsweek’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America and was featured in the PBS documentary Jewish Americans. Author of numerous articles in books and journals, she was on the editorial board of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary.
She was a Fellow of the Corporation of Brown University from where she graduated in 1971. Ordained by Hebrew Union College in 1976, she is the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi. She is a member of the Board of the Jewish Women’s Archive, of CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org), the Active Aging Network (formerly B3: The Jewish Boomer Platform) and is a Rabbinic Fellow of the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and a mentor in the Clergy Leadership Incubator.
Rabbi Geller was named an Influencer in Aging by Next Avenue in 2017 and is a founder of the first synagogue-based village, ChaiVillageLA, which is part of the national Village Movement. She is the Chair of the Synagogue Village Network and has helped facilitate synagogue villages in Southern California and New York. She is co-author, with her late husband Richard Siegel, of Getting Good at Getting Older (Behrman House, 2019.) She is currently working on a book called Moments that Matter: Marking Transitions in Midlife and Beyond.
Minimum Gift of $500 to The Jewish Federation’s Annual Campaign is required to attend.
Special thanks to Jeanne and Tony Pritzker for underwriting the series as a loving tribute to Tony’s late mother, Susan S. Pritzker. The goal of the Pritzker series is to feature dynamic and educational presentations by top professionals, appealing to women of all stages of life.
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