Rabbi Anne Brener, a psychotherapist specializing in grief and healing, helps create caring communities. Professor at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, she wrote acclaimed Mourning & Mitzvah: (Jewish Lights) and contributed to many publications. A founder of Yedidya’s Jewish Spiritual Direction Program and of Project Sanctuary, one of the US’ first shelters for Battered Women, she works to de-pathologize grief. Ordained by HUC-JIR in 2008, Anne holds Masters in Social Work, Communal Service, Jewish Letters, and Broadcast-Communications and an HUC-JIR Honorary Doctorate. She leads a weekly zoom meditation service. Anne’s daughter, Jen, lives in Oregon.
