{"title":"Rabbi Anne Brener","description":"\u003cp\u003eRABBI 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 \u003cem\u003eMourning \u0026amp; Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner’s Path Through Grief to Healing\u003c\/em\u003e, now in its third edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrener 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she’s not writing, Brener trains rabbinic, cantorial, and chaplaincy students, and previously served as a bereavement chaplain for Skirball Hospice in Los Angeles. 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