Rabbi Keilah Lebell

Rabbi Keilah Lebell is the Director of Project Zug at the Hadar Institute, where she produces self-guided text-study courses and facilitates havruta (partner) matching for Jews around the world. She has a deep passion for hesed (lovingkindness) work, particularly in the area of hesed shel emet (caring for the dead) and caring for the ill and bereaved. Her own Project Zug course, The Truest Act of Kindness, came out in June 2025. Keilah received ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles and now resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband, Rabbi Sam Rotenberg, and their three children.