Speaker Profile Rabbanit Leah Sarna

Rabbanit Leah Sarna is the spiritual leader of Kehillat Sha'arei Orah, an Orthodox synagogue in Lower Merion, PA. She also teaches on the faculties of the International Beit Din and the Drisha Institute. She previously served as Director of Religious Engagement at Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation in Chicago, a leading urban Orthodox congregation. She is a musmekhet of Yeshivat Maharat, holds a BA from Yale University in Philosophy & Psychology, and also trained at the SKA Beit Midrash for Women at Migdal Oz, Drisha and the Center for Modern Torah Leadership.

Rabbanit Sarna’s published works have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Lehrhaus and the Jewish Review of Books. She has lectured in Orthodox synagogues and Jewish communal settings around the world and loves spreading her warm, energetic love for Torah and Mitzvot with Jews in all stages of life.