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 South Bay

When:             In Person Conference on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Hours:             8:30am-2:00pm.

Theme:           Navigating Troubled Waters: How Faith Can Build a Bridge to Solace 

Where:            Temple Menorah, Redondo Beach

Registration:  

Registration

  CATHOLIC-JEWISH

women's dialogue

Conference Information

2025 Amazing Speakers

Linda Schultz, PhD

Linda Schultz is a spiritual director, supervisor, and educator. Rooted in the Roman Catholic
tradition, she enjoys engaging in ecumenical and interfaith traditions and dialogues, particularly
as they intersect in their spiritualities and contemplative prayer practices.

 

Linda’s education is in the fields of Education (MA), Pastoral Theology (MA), and Depth
Psychology (PhD). The primary focus of her work has been and continues to be the intersection
of spirituality and depth psychology. 

Linda has been engaged in lay ministry since the 1980’s. She served in adult formation and education in a parish setting for several years before moving to the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University where she was the Coordinator for Graduate and Special Programs. There she planned diverse academic, community, and spiritual offerings for graduate students, as well as the wider community through the Continuing Education outreach of the University. During this tenure, she was a member of the Hindu-Catholic Dialogue of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

In more recent years, Linda has been engaged with Stillpoint: The Center for Christian Spirituality, where she has been faculty for and engaged in formation of spiritual directors, group spiritual direction, and Peer Supervision Programs. She has offered many retreats and teaching days over the years. She has also served on the Graduate committee, helping vision courses and offerings for those who are already engaged in the work of spiritual direction or other soul care ministries. She has served on the Stillpoint Board of Directors since 2012. Since 1999, she has been in private practice as a spiritual director and supervisor, a work she continues to be passionate about.

Linda is married and lives in Redondo Beach. She enjoys reading and learning, especially in small community groups, playing piano, being in nature, and good movies, concerts, poetry, and theater. She also enjoys continuing engagement with dreamwork, embodied movement, soul collage, and the Enneagram. The challenges and joys of aging are a particular interest at this point in her life.

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Rabbi Deborah Schuldenfrei 

Rabbi Deborah Schuldenfrei is the Interim Senior Rabbi at Temple Menorah of the South Bay.

Born and raised in the Midwest, then traveling to Jerusalem for a year at the seminary, for over

two decades, Los Angeles has been her home. She attended Washington University in St. Louis

and before becoming a Reform rabbi she completed a joint master’s degree in Jewish education

and Jewish Nonprofit Management at the Hebrew-Union College (HUC). As an HUC student,

Deborah was the founding education director at IKAR.

 

After rabbinic ordination, she served as a pulpit rabbi and educator at Congregation Shir-Ha'Ma-alot of Irvine. She then returned to HUC as Education Director of the graduate program DeLeT (Day School Leadership through Teaching). Then, she served as Head of School at Valley Beth Shalom Harold M. Schulweis Day School. She led High Holiday Services alongside Craig Taubman at the Pico Union Project for many seasons. Rabbi Schuldenfrei appeared in all of the webisodes of the Morgan Freeman's "Story of God" webisode companion series “A Pastor, A Rabbi and an Imam”. Most recently she was Interim Senior Rabbi at Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills. 

 

She is a lover of the land, people and food of Israel. Reading, writing, tv/movie-watching, and yoga practice are her truest passions, and she has been part of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for over a decade. Deborah is married to Rabbi Brian Schuldenfrei, Senior Rabbi at Adat Ari El and a mother of three sons.

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