Jonathan Dobrer
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Wedding & Memorial Service Celebrations
Every life and love is unique. Your celebrations should reflect
that uniqueness
I bring more than 40 years of experience in helping people with the great occasions and passages of life. From marriage to birth, from illness to death, and for the survivors, on to healing, I am both a guide and resource.
I was ordained “to the service of liberal religion” in Berkeley in 1970, and am comfortable in most of the languages of spirituality and the many scriptures of humanity. I’m an academic specialist in Comparative Religion and may be one of a very small number who has studied with a Rabbi, a Rebbe and an Imam as well as having taken Roman Catholic Canon Law from the Jesuits.
Over the past 20 years, in addition to teaching popular courses at American Jewish University, I have supplied clergy and scholarly services to Unitarian Universalist congregations, as well as Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist Jewish synagogues.
First consultations are always free of charge and entail no obligation. My service area, where there is no additional charge for time and travel is Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Orange County and Ventura County. I am also available for “Destination” events.
"We really—really—will never forget how you made Mama's Memorial so heartfelt and special, and took such care to make it so authentically Mama. I can't thank you enough."
— JG
North Hollywood, 2015