Creator Bio
Leila Gal Berner
b. 1950
Born in San Francisco, Leila Gal Berner serves as rabbi at Kol Ami: The Northern Virginia Reconstructionist Community and at Bet Mishpachah, the latter serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Jewish community of Washington, D.C. Berner lived in Israel, earned her doctorate in history from UCLA, and was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She was also the founding director of the Center for Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
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Miriam HaNeviah
Miriam, one of the few women in the Bible to be called a prophet, provides an important opportunity for contemporary liturgists to expand the male-dominated framework of traditional Jewish prayer.