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Rabbi Alicia Magal brings a wide background in Judaic studies and the arts to her rabbinate. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, majoring in French and Art History, with a Masters in Teaching from Wesleyan University, Rabbi Magal spent seven years in Israel working at the Israel Broadcasting Authority national television station and as a licensed tour guide for adult and youth groups. She met her husband Itzhak in Israel on Kibbutz Maagan Michael during her work study Ulpan program. They spent several years living in Jerusalem, and when their two children were small they moved to Los Angeles where Itzhak furthered his career in production sound for films and television, and Alicia continued her work in the Jewish community. Rabbi Magal developed interactive programs and museum tours as Museum Educator at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles; worked as Program Director for Temple Emanuel, a large Reform synagogue in Beverly Hills; and served as Rabbinic Intern for Kehillat Israel, a large Reconstructionist synagogue in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. She received rabbinical ordination in 2003 from the Aleph Jewish Renewal Rabbinical Program and from the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles. Rabbi Magal served as spiritual leader for Makom Shalom, a Jewish Renewal congregation in Chicago before moving to Sedona in 2006 where she currently serves as rabbi of the Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley.

Rabbi Magal brings a sense of joyful Judaism and strives to make Torah study relevant to peoples lives. She has become very active in the local interfaith community to which she brings her love of Jewish music and tradition.

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