Background
Rachel Biale was born on August 13, 1952 in Kfar Ruppin, Israel, into the family of Chaim and Anina (Vohryzek) Korati. She came to the United States in 1973.
Rachel received her Bachelor of Arts in History in 1976. Then she earned Master of Arts in Jewish History from University of California at Los Angeles.
Then she earned Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University in 1981.
Rachel Biale was born on August 13, 1952 in Kfar Ruppin, Israel, into the family of Chaim and Anina (Vohryzek) Korati. She came to the United States in 1973.
Rachel received her Bachelor of Arts in History in 1976. Then she earned Master of Arts in Jewish History from University of California at Los Angeles in 1978 and her Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University in 1981.
Rachel Biale is the author of "Women and Jewish Law" (Schocken, 1984), which got its start as a course at Lehrhaus in 1977. She has taught classes and lectured on women, gender and family relations in Jewish tradition in the Bay Area, and in other cities in the US and abroad.
She founded and has served as the director of Lehrhaus Judaica’s “Bible by the Bay.” She is the former Bay Area Regional Director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance. She lives in Berkley, California, where she is a practicing psychotherapist.
Quotations: “My book series for parents and children, “Let’s Make a Book about It”, came out of my clinical work with children. Over and over, I found in my practice that making a book about a painful or challenging experience helps children cope with their experience, feel good about their abilities, and bring parents and kids closer.”
She is a kind, wise woman who is really good at what she does.
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First, I must tell you, Rachel is wise. I had previously used a well known sleep consultant and other coaches to help me with my daughters sleeping. It made little "dents" but my daughter wasn't sleeping that much better and was still nursing in the middle of the night. Some of these other methods just were not accommodating to fit all the nuances of our circumstance.
The thing that most impressed me about Rachel was she was so reasonably priced, she was able to really work with who I am (an attachment style parent), be there for all the different "parts" of me that arose, and not just use a one size fit all method like I've seen others use that made no difference to my daughters sleeping because they were against my values.
Rachel Biale married David Joseph on March 20, 1973, with whom she has two children: Noam and Tali.