Steve Led­er is the senior rab­bi of Wilshire Boule­vard Tem­ple in Los Ange­les. After receiv­ing his degree in writ­ing and grad­u­at­ing cum laude from North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty, and spend­ing time study­ing at Trin­i­ty Col­lege, Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty, Led­er received a mas­ter’s degree in Hebrew let­ters in 1986 and rab­bini­cal ordi­na­tion in 1987 from Hebrew Union College.