About me
Rabbi Melanie Levav is passionate about helping to improve end-of-life care and conversations and brings this commitment to Shomer Collective as the Executive Director. Prior to Shomer Collective, Rabbi Levav served as the Director of PJ Library in New York, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. Rabbi Levav has held positions at the Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, the Mandel Center for Jewish Education at JCC Association, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and UJA-Federation of New York. Ordained as a rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary, she is a board certified chaplain through Neshama: Association for Jewish Chaplains, received her graduate degree in social work from Columbia University, and trained as a death doula through the University of Vermont.
