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This library is the Beit Midrash of The Glebe Minyan, a Jewish Renewal community in Ottawa. The collection includes materials related to spirituality in the broadest sense with a focuse on Juduaism. It also includes texts related to my many research interests.
Annual membership is $25.00.
Loan periods are 3 weeks.
To view the library, please make an appointment: maranta.anna@gmail.com

Anna Maranta enjoys guiding and supporting people along their life journeys using different modalities including counselling, education, life-coaching and spiritual direction. Using an integral approach; Anna work with you to assess all areas of your life - Heart, Mind, Body and Soul - and to help you to develop a life practice that will renew your sense of wellbeing.

Anna is a post-denominational rabbinical student in the rabbinical ordination program of ALEPH: The Alliance for Jewish Renewal, where she focuses her studies on Gender and Sexuality in Judaism. She received smicha from Rabbi Arie Chark, Shavuot 5770.

Anna has completed graduate studies in the history of women’s health at the University of Ottawa where her focus was on the professionalisation of women’s health professions. She has a Bachelor of Independent Studies in the Art, Science and History of Midwifery from the University of Waterloo where her thesis focused on the story of midwifery from 1795 through to the re-birth of the profession in the latter half of the 20th century. She also has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario where she studied psychology focusing on human sexuality and reproduction.

Anna’s diverse interests have been expressed through both her paid and volunteer work experiences. She worked for many years in women’s health as a doula, midwife, women’s health educator, and advocate. She enjoyed helping to create and support the growth of women and their families in many communities in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, as well as El Paso/Cuidad Juarez, Afghanistan and Nunavik.
From 2004 to 2006, Anna worked on the Multidisciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project (MCP2) and in 2006-07 she worked on the development of an emergency obstetrical skills curriculum for low resource communities.

Anna enjoys developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum. Some of her other interests, in no particular order, include: the impact of poverty, HIV/AIDS, race, religion, culture, sexuality and sexual orientation, violence and other factors on the health and well being of women and their children; mothering; the impact of childbearing experiences on mothering; mothering disabled children; mothering with a disability; professionalisation; historical and cultural perspectives on midwifery; woman’s ways of knowing; feminist organisational development; feminist and other anti-oppression pedagogies; Judaism; feminist spirituality, thealogy, and liturgy; non-violent communication; Integral Theory and its various applications; and vegan/vegetarian/raw food preparation and nutrition.

Anna has two birth children: Tessa (1983) and Chandra (1985), and has had the privilege of mothering many others including Mathew (1983); Christopher (1984); Scotty, z’l; Elizabeth (1984); Amelia (1986) and Oliver (1991).

Anna can often be found in a local café sipping on a large soy latte, while savouring dark [70%, organic, fair-trade, and kosher] chocolate. Some of her favourite things are fresh, wild blueberries, late evening yoga, and Post-It Notes.