Meet the Team

Staff

  • Rabbi Deni Deutsch Marshall

    Rabbi Deni was ordained as a rabbi through the Alliance for Jewish Renewal in January 2023. Rabbi Deni works part-time for EJCS as a rabbi-chaplain in the greater Sacramento area. She also conducts EJCS classes.

    Rabbi Deni is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been in private practice as a therapist for 29 years. In 2011 she became a Spiritual Director through the Morei Derekh Jewish Spiritual Direction Program. A few years later Deni became a Jewish Meditation teacher through the Institute of Jewish Spirituality, and a Mussar Facilitator trained through The Mussar Institute. During this past decade, Deni has led spiritual direction groups, meditation groups, and Mussar vaads (study groups). She created and co-led a Shabbaton on Jewish Wisdom for Aging , and teaches workshops on Jewish practices on death and dying.

    Rabbi Deni officiates at life cycle events, and also offers individual spiritual direction and therapy sessions online. She created, and for more than 10 years has led, a Jewish renewal Shabbat morning service at Congregation B’nai Israel in Sacramento, which includes prayer, chants, meditation and song. She also enjoys being a doting Savta (grandmother) of three young children with whom she is very involved.