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RABBI SHEILA PELTZ WEINBERG served as a congregational rabbi for seventeen years.  She has also worked in the fields of Jewish community relations, Jewish education and Hillel. She has published widely on such topics as feminism, spiritual direction, parenting, social justice and mindfulness from a Jewish perspective and has contributed commentaries to KOL HANESHAMA, the Reconstructionist prayer book. She is the author of SURPRISINGLY HAPPY: AN ATYPICAL RELIGIOUS MEMOIR, and has released the CD, PREPARING THE HEART: MEDITATIONS FOR JEWISH SPIRITUAL PRACTICE.   Rabbi Weinberg teaches mindfulness meditation to rabbis, Jewish professionals and lay people and serves as faculty for IJS programs. She is creator and co-leader of the JEWISH MINDFULNESS TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM.