Rabbi Laura Geller, Rabbi Emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, twice named one of Newsweek’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America, was named by PBS Next Avenue as one of the fifty 2017 Influencers in Aging.
Prior to becoming one of the first women to be selected through a national search to lead a major metropolitan synagogue, Rabbi Geller served as the Director of Hillel of University of Southern California for 14 years and as the Pacific Southwest Region's Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress for 4 years. She 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 serves as a Fellow of the Corporation of Brown University from where she graduated in 1971. In addition she serves on the boards of Encore.org and the Jewish Women's Archives. Ordained by Hebrew Union College in 1976, she is the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi.
Sessions in which Laura Geller participates
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Gender Justice: Then, Now, Next Hotel Irvine - Grand Ballroom - Salon E
- 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Laura Geller will moderate a conversation reflecting on the evolution of second-wave feminism to today's current work around gender justice. Our p...
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3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Getting Good at Getting Older: Boomers Changing the Paradigm of Aging Hotel Irvine - Theater
- 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- "Boomers" (people born between 1946 and 1964) are the first generation in human history … to reasonably anticipate living … into their 80’s a...
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