Active Aging Convening - September 2025

The Power of Life Cycle Ritual in Midlife and Beyond

A Virtual Gathering
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

Join us for a conversation with Rabbi Laura Geller and Rabbi Beth Lieberman on the power of life cycle ritual in midlife and beyond.

Rabbi Laura Geller and Rabbi Beth Lieberman are coauthors of a new book: Moments that Matter: Marking Transitions in Midlife and Beyond.

Rabbi Laura Geller, rabbi emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, was the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi. 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. Please visit her website at www.rabbilaurageller.com.

Rabbi Beth Lieberman serves as adjunct faculty at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Rabbinical Studies, in Los Angeles, mentoring the next generation of communal leaders. She is the coeditor of Honoring Tradition, Embracing Modernity: A Reader for the Union for Reform Judaism's Introduction to Judaism Course and the literary editor of the JPS TANAKH: Revised Edition (Jewish Publication Society and Sefaria.org, 2023). Please visit her website at www.rabbibethlieberman.com.

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