Rabbi Sofia Zway

Sofia is the Base Rabbi for Base Los Angeles. She is a proudly South-African, Ecuadorian-born, Reform rabbi. She’s had the privilege of serving diverse communities in Cape Town, New York, Los Angeles and Las Cruces, NM. She is also a DONA-trained birth doula. A lover of bad puns and good romcoms, Sofia and her husband, Rabbi Brett Kopin, are thrilled to be building sacred community in Los Angeles together.

She received her Honors degree in Applied Theatre from the University of Cape Town and her Master of Arts and Rabbinic Ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.