Rabbi Margie Jacobs is a graduate of the second cohort of the Rabbinic Program for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and of the STAR PEER (Professional Education for Excellence in Rabbis) program. She served as spiritual leader of Temple Beth Hillel in Richmond, California for five years and has studied mindfulness meditation and Hasidic texts for ten years. Her teachers include Sylvia Boorstein and Rabbi Jonathan Omer-man. Rabbi Jacobs received her ordination at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2000, and was recognized for her teaching of feminism and Hasidism.