- This event has passed.
Join Rabbi Elana Ackerman Hirsch for a creative class to learn about the month of Elul, connect with others over text, and have space to reflect and create as we enter the High Holy Day season.
Rabbi Elana Ackerman Hirsch was ordained as a rabbi in 2024 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute for Religion in Los Angeles, CA. She received a Master’s in Educational Leadership (MEdL) from the Rhea Hirsch School of Education in 2022. Rabbi Ackerman Hirsch has lived all over the West Coast-she grew up in California and Arizona and went to college in Tacoma, Washington.
Her love of Judaism was nurtured through her family’s weekly Shabbat dinners with her grandparents and through her experiences in religious school and attending Jewish theater summer camp. Rabbi Ackerman Hirsch graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a Bachelor of Science in Natural Sciences (Biology emphasis) and minor in Science, Technology, and Society. After graduating, she worked in the medical technology startup space before realizing that she needed more spirituality and Judaism in her day-to-day life. After leaving the tech world, Rabbi Ackerman Hirsch taught preschool in San Francisco and then moved to Israel, which she had dreamed of living in ever since going on Birthright, and taught English to 1st through 6th graders. Read more.