Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson is Director of Leadership and Learning at T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, as well as Director of T'ruah's Emor Institute. He also serves part-time as the rabbi of the Flatbush and Shaare Torah Jewish Center. Ordained in 2013 at Hebrew College, he is a Wexner Graduate Fellow and in 2017 was honored by the Covenant Foundation with a Pomegranate Prize. Prior to rabbinical school, he taught 5th grade at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan. Lev holds a BA from Brown University in geology. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
Rabbi Heather Miller is a school leader and President of the Flatbush and Shaare Torah Jewish Center. She is passionate about creating embracing spaces for all of the intersected identities in both the religious and secular parts of her life. Rabbi Heather merges her skill sets as a USCJ Board member and with other organizations. She is honored to have been selected as one of NY Jewish Week’s 36 to Watch 2023 and to have had her work featured in the nationally syndicated PBS show Table for All with Buki Elegbede. Her favorite role is as the mother of three amazing boys who are descended from both freed slaves and Holocaust survivors.
