After receiving his degree in writing and graduating Cum Laude from Northwestern University, and time studying at Trinity College, Oxford University, Rabbi Steven Z.
More Beautiful Than Before has helped tens of thousands of peop.
It remains a best seller in several categories and has been translated into Korean and Chinese.
His third book More Beautiful Than Before
How Suffering Transforms Us was reached #4 on Amazon\'s overall best sellers list in its first week.
Rabbi Leder\'s second book More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing Your Soul received critical and media attention including feature articles in the New York Times, Town and Country and appearances on ABC\'s Politically Incorrect, NPR, and CBS This Morning.
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein said he is everything we search for in a modern wise man; learned, kind, funny, and non-judgmental, he offers remarkably healing guidance.
In the New York Times, William Safire called Rabbi Leder\'s first book The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things uplifting. for his work in African American/Jewish dialogue and in 2012 presented twice at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Rabbi Leder received the Louis Rappaport Award for Excellence in Commentary by the American Jewish Press Association and the Kovler Award from the Religious Action Center in Washington D.
C.
His sermon on capital punishment was included in an award winning episode of The West Wing.
He is a regular contributor and guest on The Today Show, writes regularly for TIME, Foxnews.com, Maria Shriver\'s Sunday Paper, contributed a chapter to Charles Barkley\'s book Who\'s Afraid of a Large Black Man?, and has published essays in Town and Country, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and the Los Angeles Jewish Journal where his Torah commentaries were read weekly by over 50,000 people.
In addition to his many duties at Wilshire Boulevard Temple Rabbi Leder taught Homiletics for 13 years at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.
The campus is soon to include a new building by Pritzker Prize winning architect Rem Koolhaas.
Rabbi Leder is currently concluding his 225 million dollar campaign to develop the congregation\'s historic urban campus encompassing an entire city block.
He currently serves as the Senior Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, a prestigious synagogue in Los Angeles with two campuses and 2,400 families.
Leder received a Master\'s Degree in Hebrew Letters in 1986 and Rabbinical Ordination in 1987 from Hebrew Union College.
After receiving his degree in writing and graduating Cum Laude from Northwestern University, and time studying at Trinity College, Oxford University, Rabbi Steven Z
