Living Love Through the Practice of Deep Listening

October 6: Student rabbi Jennifer Moses will be our speaker and Pat McLear will serve as the lay leader. From Jennifer Moses: Shana tova. This past week Jews around the world celebrated Rosh HaShanah, the New Year, and are in an intense process of reflection and repentance leading to Yom Kippur next Friday night. This Sunday I’ll be speaking about Deep Listening, and how many religious and literary traditions understand how we can get closer to nature, each other and the divine by focusing on others. I look forward to sharing my thoughts and discussing them with you.

October 13: JUUF welcomes Rev. Natalie Malter as our guest speaker. In cultures around the world, people hold ceremonies to celebrate the transition from childhood to adulthood. But what about the experiences of transformation that occur afterwards, throughout the rest of our lives? How do we honor the ways in which our values and passions evolve well into adulthood? Join guest UU Minister, Rev. Natalie Malter, to explore the ways in which we can come of age at any age, embracing the changes that life brings.

Rev. Malter is a Unitarian Universalist minister based in Seattle, Washington. Currently, she is a full-time doctoral student, completing a PhD in Religious Studies, as well as an Affiliated Community Minister at the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation just north of Seattle. She visits Juneau occasionally to spend time with her extended family here, and is looking forward to meeting with the Juneau UU Fellowship.

October 20: Stewardship Sunday

Jennifer Moses is a graduate of Brown University (where she met her husband Ron Beller, and on whose Board she has served for eight years) and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has three wonderful children: Sarah, who is a lawyer in Anchorage and lives with her husband Skye; Jesse, who is a fin tech startup entrepreneur and lives in LA with his wife Vita, and Leah, who is finishing her sophomore year at Kenyon College.   

Jennifer was a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and London. After she left finance she built a children’s charity in London called ARK that started and runs 36 schools for over 30,000 low income children and also developed Antiretroviral Drug treatment programs in South Africa and Mozambique. She helped restructure the Courtauld and the British Museum and then ran a policy think tank for the Liberal Democrats in London. Jennifer was a Special Adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown during the financial crisis of 2008-9, helping to restructure the British banking system and consumer finance regulation. Jennifer moved to San Francisco in 2009, where she and her husband started Caliber Public Schools, a public charter school organization serving 1800 low income students of color in the East Bay in  publicly funded, non selective K-8 schools that have greater numbers of Special Needs students than the Districts in which they operate. She was CEO of those schools until 2019. She also sits on the Board of Rothschild & Co, the French-Anglo bank.

Jennifer lives in Aspen. She moved from San Francisco where she had been an early Board Member of the KitchenSF, a start up synagogue that has brought community, Torah, great music, food and study to the Bay Area. She is a Board member of the Reform Aspen Jewish Congregation. Jennifer has had a wonderful year in Jerusalem and can’t wait to get to know the community in Juneau.