Rabbi Leila Gal Berner

Rabbi Leila Gal Berner (RRC ’89) is dean of students in the Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal Ordination Program, where she also teaches history and midrash. She has recently published Listening to the Heart of Genesis: A Contemplative Path available from Wipf and Stock Publishers. She is Ima to her beloved daughter Kayla; Savta to her exquisite granddaughters Aliya, Olivia and Lucy; and besherte to her wonderful wife Franna.

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