Keshet Leadership Summit - Facilitators
Randi Adler, LCSW, has been involved in Jewish social services for more than 35 years. As the Program Director for LGBT Services at Jewish Community Services of South Florida, she has been active in both the LGBT community as well as the greater Miami Jewish community. Her passion for these two worlds was consolidated after participating in the Keshet Master Training workshop a few years ago. She has lectured widely on LGBT issues on a local, state and national level. She also provided LGBT sensitivity training for school personnel in Miami-Dade County, the fourth largest school district in the nation.
In her 32 years with JCS, Randi has been instrumental in developing LGBT inclusive policies which impact both clients and staff. Her dedication to her work was recognized in 2012, when she was named NASW's Social Worker of the Year for Miami-Dade County.
Idit Klein has been an activist for equality and social justice for the past 20 years. Since 2001, she has served as Executive Director of Keshet. During this time, Klein has built Keshet from a one-person, local organization with an annual budget of $42,000 to an 18-person, national organization with an annual budget of nearly two million. Under her leadership, Keshet developed a comprehensive training curriculum for LGBT inclusion and trained educators in hundreds of Jewish communities around the country. In Massachusetts, Klein helped mobilize Massachusetts rabbis and synagogue members to defeat the proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Klein also served as the Executive Producer of Keshet’s award-winning documentary film Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School.
Prior to leading Keshet, Klein was an activist in the LGBT community in Israel and played a role in early organizing efforts to create the Jerusalem Open House. She has worked for social justice organizations in Jerusalem and in Boston including SHATIL, the Israel/Palestine Center for Research & Information, and Community Work Services. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, Klein received her Master’s in Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a focus on social justice and anti-oppression education. She is also a certified facilitator of the Center for Leadership Initiatives.
Klein was among eight recipients of the 2003-2005 Joshua Venture Fellowship for young Jewish social entrepreneurs and was a plenary speaker at the 2007 Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly. A board member of JOIN for Justice and a past fellow, Klein was honored by the Jewish Women’s Archive with a Women Who Dared award and named to the Forward 50.
Rebecca Weiner, MA, has been working in the Jewish community for the past 25 years. She has worked as an educator, consultant and program manager. She is currently the education director at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav. Rebecca was an interculturalist and trainer for the high tech industry with a focus on helping Israelis become thriving members of global teams. Rebecca brings to her position at Keshet, her expertise in education and training, as well as her passion to LGBT inclusion in the Jewish world.
