Rabbi Anna Boswell-Levy has served as the rabbi and spiritual leader of Congregation Kol Emet since July 2014. She is a creative educator, service leader, and ritual maker, infusing song and spirit into her services and teachings. Rabbi Anna places a high emphasis on relationships based on trust and mutual respect. She is dedicated to the creation of healthy and inclusive congregations where every voice can be heard. Rabbi Anna grew up in an interfamily household and strives to integrate the diverse, multi-faceted backgrounds and cultural identities of congregants into the fabric of synagogue life.

Prior to coming to Kol Emet, Rabbi Anna served as the rabbi and education director of Tzedek v’Shalom, a Reconstructionist community also located in Bucks County. In that time, Rabbi Anna built important ties to larger Bucks County Jewish, interfaith, and faith-based groups. She a member of the Newtown-Yardley Ministerium, the Yardley chapter of the Sisterhood of Salaam-Shalom, and the Bucks County Rabbis Council, for which she served as chair and organized the first interdenominational Introduction to Judaism class in Bucks County.  She currently is a leader in the Lower Bucks chapter of POWER, an organization which seeks to organize people of faith who care about justice and equality.

Rabbi Anna’s experiences in Israel were a foundational part of her decision to become a rabbi and sparked in her a passion for social justice. Rabbi Anna has lived and studied in Israel on four separate occasions. While studying in Israel during rabbinical school, she was an Aaron Zeigelman Social Justice Fellow and interned for Bat Shalom, an Israeli feminist peace organization. She took part of the first American Jewish World Service rabbinical student delegation to El Salvador in 2004, where she learned first-hand the effects of globalization on the local economy and rural poor families. More recently, she participated in the first rabbinic delegation to visit Immokalee, Florida, organized by T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, where she witnessed the living and working conditions of migrant farmworkers.

Rabbi Anna served as the Board co-chair of T’ruah from 2013-15 and has served on its national board since 2005. She is currently a board member of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association as serves on its Executive Committee.  Rabbi Anna is a 2006 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Rabbi Anna lives in Yardley with her spouse, Josh, who is an attorney, and their three young daughters Adar, Zara and Olive. They are sources for much laughter, inspiration, and continued devotion to Jewish life.