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.