Rachel A. Brodie ’89

Rachel A. Brodie ’89, of Berkeley, Calif.; Apr. 11, of a fatal fall. She was the cofounder of Jewish Milestones, an educational resource for Jewish lifecycle ceremonies that launched in 2004 as The Ritualist. After Brown, she earned a master’s degree in rabbinic literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary. From 1992 to 1994, she lived in Sofia, Bulgaria, as a community educator with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, where she met her husband. From 1994 to 1996, she was a founding director of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Conn., where she cofounded the Teva Learning Center. She and her husband settled in the Bay Area in 1997 after she spent a year in Israel on a Melton Senior Educators Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Shortly after arriving in the Bay Area, she began working with Jewish LearningWorks (then the Bureau of Jewish Education). While her official tenure lasted until 2007, she continued her association with the organization until the end. She also served as “chief Jewish officer” at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, a position created just for her, from 2011 to 2016. She coauthored Jewish Family Education: A Casebook for the Twenty-First Century, and she frequently contributed to Jewish journals. She was instrumental in the creation of Chemo Siddur to help cancer patients in a Jewish context when undergoing chemotherapy. In addition to her former husband Adam Weisberg, she is survived by two daughters; her father and his wife; and a brother and sister-in-law.