Brief Bio
Muriel Dance currently serves as Executive Director of the Sandra Caplan Community Bet Din. She graduated as a Jewish Chaplain from the Academy for Jewish Religion, California in May 2011. After completing her four units of Clinical Pastoral Education, she accepted employment as a Spiritual Counselor at Skirball Hospice, and then applied for and received Board Certification as a Chaplain through the Association for Professional Chaplains. After retiring from Skirball Hospice in February, 2016, she focused on providing leadership for the AJRCA Clergy and Alumni Association.
Muriel earned her Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley, attended the Harvard University Management of Lifelong Education Institute and spent a sabbatical year in Israel as a Senior Educator at Hebrew University’s Melton Centre in Jerusalem.
Before moving to Los Angeles to begin her Jewish Studies, she directed continuing education at Antioch University Seattle and other institutions of higher education. She also chaired the adult education committee at Congregation Beth Shalom, Seattle, where she taught Hebrew and Introduction to Judaism for several years and served on the Board of Trustees at Hillel University of Washington. She is married, the mother of two adult children, and a member of Ikar synagogue in Los Angeles.