Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard, Executive Director - Jewish Initiative for Animals

Picture of Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard, Executive Director - Jewish Initiative for Animals
Based in Los Angeles, Jonathan is an ordained Conservative rabbi who served a wonderful congregation for 25 years before deciding it was time for something different. In addition to serving all animals, Jonathan is the co-founder of the Valley Chevra Kaddisha and is crazy about English Premier League Soccer, fostering mama dogs and their puppies, raising chickens, and playing ukulele badly.

My Posts

Embracing Change: A Call to Rethink the Passover Seder Plate

How and why can you create a plant-based seder plate? We embrace change during Passover, especially in rethinking the seder plate.

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Why Tu b'Shvat Needs to be More Than a Birthday for Trees

Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard encourages us to recommit to caring for our world and to see Tu b’Shvat as more than the “birthday for the trees.

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