Rabbi Kelly Whitehead (she/they) is the Assistant Director of Engagement and Learning at the Union for Reform Judaism. She was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (’24), where she received her MA in Hebrew Literature and her M.A. in Jewish Nonprofit Management. Kelly is the creator and lead organizer of NFTY’s Teen Jew…
Rabbi Claudia Kreiman is the Senior Rabbi at Temple Beth Zion (TBZ) in Brookline, MA. She grew up in Santiago, Chile and lived in Argentina. Rav Claudia moved to Israel in 1996, and received rabbinic ordination from Shechter Institute of Jewish Studies in 2002. She was the first Rabbi of Noam, the youth movement of the…
Eliana Willis (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College and expects to graduate in 2024. Eliana grew up in Los Angeles and earned a B.A. in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. While in Santa Cruz she organized with Fossil Free UC, a successful campaign to divest the University of California from fossil fuels….
Becky Jaye (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, in New York, class of 2022. Becky is proudly from Brooklyn, New York, where she was raised in an interfaith home. Becky completed her undergraduate degree in American Studies at Yale College and then completed a two-year fellowship in…
Rebecca Galin (she/her) is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (class of 2025). Prior to beginning her studies at JTS, Rebecca learned at Yeshivat Maharat, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and Yeshivat Hadar. Rebecca worked for two years at UJA Federation of New York, co-running a program for diverse Israeli social changemakers, managing…
Lawrence Dreyfuss (he/him) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College and expects to graduate in 2026. Before coming to rabbinical school, Lawrence served as a Teach For America corps member teaching high school English at Waianae High School, a predominately native Hawaiian high school on the west coast of Oahu. While there, he also coached…
Anna Calamaro (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, class of 2023. A Chicago native, Anna completed her undergraduate studies in 2014 at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana campus, in Jewish Studies. She worked for four years for Metro Chicago Hillel as Director of Engagement and Jewish Life, serving students on college campuses…
Briah Cahana (she/her) is a rabbinical student at Yeshivat Maharat in Riverdale, NY, in the 2023 class. Her upbringing in Sweden, Toronto, and Montreal enabled her to become a quick adapter to and great enthusiast for new environments, languages, and cultures. Her parents — a rabbi and social worker duo — modeled for her the…
LR (she/her) comes to T’ruah after graduating from the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program with MA’s in Jewish Professional Leadership and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. She is also an organizer, Hebrew calligrapher, and writer. Wherever she finds herself, LR is committed to connecting Jews to Jews, Jews to ritual, Jews to…
Senior Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel has been with Temple Micah since 1983 and has woven his open-minded, creative approach to Judaism into the culture and worship at Micah. He feels his primary role as rabbi is grappling with the challenge of “translating” the inherited Jewish past into a theology and practice that speaks to today….