Rabbanit Leah Sarna is the spiritual leader of Kehillat Sha'arei Orah, an Orthodox synagogue in Lower Merion, PA. She also teaches on the faculty of the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. She previously served as Director of Religious Engagement at Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation in Chicago, a leading urban Orthodox congregation. She was ordained at Yeshivat Maharat in 2018, graduated from Yale College in 2014 with a bachelors in Philosophy & Psychology, and participated in the Life Worth Living Course in its first iteration, in the spring of 2014.

Rabbanit Sarna’s published works have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Lehrhaus and the Jewish Review of Books. She has lectured in Orthodox synagogues and Jewish communal settings around the world and loves spreading her warm, energetic love for Torah with Jews in all stages of life.