Rabbi Gordon Bernat-Kunin is currently serving in his twentienth year as Rabbinic Director and Director of the Advanced Jewish Studies Center/BeitMidrash at the Milken Community High School of Stephen Wise Temple. He was the founder and Educational Director of Makor, which developed pluralistic, grassroots Shabbat-centered learning communities for Jews in their twenties and thirties. He served as Lecturer in Rabbinics at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, Scholar-in-Residence for ACCESS, the young leadership arm of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, and coordinator of the Visions Forum of the Shalom Hartman Institute. In 2008-2009, he received a fellowship in educational leadership at the Shalom Hartman Institute (SHI), where he served as a fellow of the North American Scholars Circle.

Rabbi Bernat-Kunin received his BA in Political Philosophy from Harvard College and his Masters in Public Health from University of California, Los Angeles. As a Wexner Graduate Fellow, he was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and received his PHD in Religion and Social Ethics from the University of Southern California. His dissertation was entitled Renewing the People of the Book: Theory and Practice for Building Interpretive Learning Communities.
Rabbi Gordon Bernat-Kunin is the husband of Dina Bernat-Kunin and father of Gavriella, Yonah, Avi, and Shai.