Susan Mernit
Susan has been a member of Kehilla since 2012 and currently serves on the Member Engagement Committee. Raised in the Reform tradition and confirmed as a teenager, she later discovered […]
Bobbi Lopez
Bobbi Lopez was born in Mexico City to a Sephardi/Ashkenazi Jewish mother and an Indigenous father, who met during the historic Mexican Student Movement of 1968. Her father later converted […]
Victoria Alcoset
Victoria’s Ashkenazi family are poor and working class Jews in Southern California, her Latineh family a blend of US and Mexicaneh indigenous. A first generation college graduate (on both sides), […]
Lia Barrow
Born and raised in Wisconsin, Lia earned a Bachelor of Humanities in Anthropology, Architecture, and French from Carnegie Mellon University, then headed to San Francisco in 1999 to start a […]
Joel Kleinman
Joel grew up in Los Angeles in a mixed family with secular and Jewish traditions. He attended Hebrew school there and became a bar mitzvah at age 13. Joel moved […]
Ron Glass
I am 75 years old; father of three (my two older kids, Hannah, and Daniel, were B’Nai Mitzvah with/in Kehilla, and Dan is now head of Brandeis School of SF, […]
Rachael Reiley
Rachael Reiley (She/Her/They/Them-Its complicated) is an almost native San Franciscan having moved to the city in the summer of love (1971). She grew up in Diamond Heights and the Castro, then […]
Jaime Jenett, Co-Chair
While Jaime didn’t grow up in a Jewish household, in her mid 20’s she learned her great grandfather, Henry Jenett, was, in fact, a Polish Jew, originally named Henry Jacobson. […]
Nina Rennert Cohen, Secretary
Nina Rennert Cohen grew up in Northern New Jersey and attended Workman’s Circle Sunday School for her childhood Jewish education. By way of Washington, DC; Rouen, France; and Palo Alto, […]
Dan Alpert, Treasurer
Dan grew up wanting to either be a teacher or else the next Johnny Carson. He went to Northwestern as a Radio-TV-Film major. But after a falteringly short career in […]