Rabbi Laura Geller, rabbi emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, was the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi. Named one of Newsweek’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America and by PBS’s Next Avenue as a 2017 Influencer in Aging, she is a cofounder of ChaiVillageLA and is the chair of the Synagogue Village Network. Currently, she serves on the boards of CoGenerate and the Active Aging Resource Network. She was featured in the PBS documentary Jewish Americans, is the author of numerous articles in books and journals, and was on the editorial board of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary. Her book Getting Good at Getting Older, coauthored with her husband Richard Siegel, z”l, was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist in the category of Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice.
