Lauren Grabelle Herrmann graduated from The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in June 2006. After serving rabbinic internships in Indiana, New Jersey, New York City, and Boston, Rabbi Lauren founded Kol Tzedek in West Philadelphia along with a handful of community members. While at RRC, Grabelle Herrmann was the recipient of the Lillian Fern Award for Service to the Community and the Rabbi Kenneth and Aviva Berger Memorial Prize in Practical Rabbinics. Rabbi Lauren is passionately committed to building a community that reaches out to the margins, seeking to bring in new voices to shape Jewish community. Most recently, Rabbi Lauren became the founding co-chair of LimmudPhilly, an annual festival of Jewish learning. She lives in West Philadelphia with her husband Jonathan and her daughter Aviel.
"I believe in the transformative power of community. I believe that when people come together to build and participate in community life, they recognize the shared responsibility we have as human beings have toward one another. As tradition teaches, 'kol aravim zeh lazeh," we are all responsible for each other. Building community is an act of courage, an act of hope; it is a statement that we need each other to do our work to heal ourselves and repair our world."
--Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann
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