Elianna Yolkut

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Rabbi Elianna Yolkut, strives through challenging questions, dynamic study and meaningful engagement to help Jews at all life stages reach a deeper understanding of and connection to Judaism. Raised with three brothers in her native St. Louis (go Cardinals), where as a toddler she would often lose herself in the folds of her father's tallit. Elianna is a rabbi, connector, writer and educator who seeks to help create intersections and integrations between wisdom texts, human beings, their lives and spiritual technologies (mitzvot). She serves as the Rabbinic Scholar and Director of the Beit Midrash and Mikvah at Adas Israel Congregation. Rabbi Yolkut is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Hartman Institute North America and is also the co-host of the podcast Not Your Jewish Mother. Ordained as a Conservative Rabbi in 2006 Elianna now lives with her wife and their three children in Washington D.C. When she isn’t parenting or teaching Torah she is likely to be found mixing a new cocktail, dripping a high quality cup of coffee or on her Peloton.