Sienna Lotenberg is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, expecting to graduate in 2023. Born and raised outside Washington, DC, she fell in love with Judaism at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, VA. Prior to rabbinical school, Sienna lived in Providence, RI, while earning her bachelor’s degree in History and Judaic Studies from Brown University, where she wrote her senior thesis on American Jewish feminist history, looking specifically at the Brown Women’s Minyan (1973-78) and its original liturgy. While in college, she served as student president of Brown RISD Hillel, was a leader and coordinator of Hillel’s Reform Minyan, and taught religious school at Temple Beth-El. When she’s not in school, she enjoys cooking, eating, dancing, and reading academic books.
