Author: rabbieger

Rabbi Denise L. Eger is is the founding spiritual leader at Congregation Kol Ami. Rabbi Eger holds a B.A. in Religion from the University of Southern California. She received her Masters Degree from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained at the New York campus in 1988. She received her Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Union College in 2013. She has worked in congregations with people of all ages, families and individuals. She is the editor of the groundbreaking book, Mishkan Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual and Gender & Religious Leadership: Women Rabbis, Pastors and Ministers. She is a Past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. She is the founder and principle of ReZilience Strategies. A Consulting and Coaching organization specializing is clergy and nonprofit executives. Following extensive coaching studies and certifications with Coaching4Clergy and Coaching4Leadership Rabbi Eger has been working with clients to help them achieve their goals. Rabbi Eger is a noted author. Her groundbreaking new book Mishkan Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual (CCARPRESS, 2020) has recently been published to 5 star reviews. In November of 2019 Rabbi Eger's first book was published Gender and Religious Leadership Women Rabbis Pastors and Minsters by Rowman & Littlefield Press. She is a Sr. Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute. She has served on numerous Rabbinic boards and organizations. Rabbi Eger has published extensively on human sexuality, interfaith dialogue and human rights and has appeared on television and radio as an expert in these areas. An accomplished educator, and a dedicated spiritual and community leader, Rabbi Eger has been at the forefront of building new and more accessible Jewish communities. Rabbi Eger previously served as the president of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis and was the first female president of the Southern California Board of Rabbis.

I’m On PARR

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Beginning today and for the week I will be attending the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis Conference.  I had the privilege of serving as President of PARR. I am just a regular member now.  This is a New Year’s tradition.  The first week in January for over 80 years the West Coast Reform Rabbis gather…Read more »

Transformer

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Parshat Va-Era Exodus 6:2 -9:35 The beginning of 2011 coincides this year with Shabbat.  At midnight on Shabbat a new decade, the second of the 21st Century, will be ushered in.  Whenever there is a New Year whether Jewish or secular there is a heightened sense of promise and hope. As the secular New Year…Read more »

Vote for Us

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Did you vote?  Don’t forget to vote for my blog and Kol Ami’s Twitter feed at the Union for Reform Judaism Techie Award website.  These are the first ever awards for social media use in synagogues!!! If you read my blog regularly (this is my personal blog)  or follow kolamila on Twitter or even if…Read more »

Communications Disasters

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It has happened.  The city is crippled.  I have been officially told who knows when service will be repaired.   Mercury is in retrograde until tomorrow.  But the communications havoc at ATT on the main lines in Los Angeles will go on long after Mercury, the planet that plays communication havoc in astrology, goes direct.…Read more »