Rabbi Anne Brener

RABBI ANNE BRENER, MAJCS, MA, LCSW, ordained by Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 2008, is a Los Angeles-based psychotherapist, spiritual director, and Professor of Ritual and Spiritual Development at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California. She is the author of Mourning & Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner’s Path Through Grief to Healing, now in its third edition.

Brener holds graduate degrees in Communications, Social Work, Jewish Communal Service, and Hebrew Letters, as well as an Honorary Doctorate in Jewish Communal Service. She has contributed chapters to numerous publications on Jewish spirituality and healing.

When she’s not writing, Brener trains rabbinic, cantorial, and chaplaincy students, and previously served as a bereavement chaplain for Skirball Hospice in Los Angeles. Her work consistently addresses grief, mourning, spirituality, and healing.

Anne lives in Los Angeles.

Rabbi Anne Brener’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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