Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Leah Berkowitz's Sermon from Shabbat Evening Services on Friday, December 6, 2024 (6 Kislev 5785).
Leah Rachel Berkowitz is a rabbi, teacher, author, and storyteller based in Philadelphia, PA. Leah teaches for Laasok.org and serves on the faculty at the URJ 6 Points Creative Arts Academy. She is a current Jewish Studio Project Fellow, a Rukin Rabbinic Fellow at 18 Doors (formerly Interfaith Family), and a Past President of the Women's Rabbinic Network. She is the author of three children's books: The World Needs Beautiful Things, Queen Vashti's Comfy Pants, and The Moving Box Sukkah, and the co-author of the middle-grade midrash collection Maybe It Happened This Way: Bible Stories Reimagined (with Erica Wovsaniker).
