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Rabbi
Jonathan A. Stein
Rabbi
Marci Bellows
Cantor Josee Wolff
Mindy Davids, Religious School Director of Education
Sari Luck Schneider, Nursery School Director
Nancy Schneider, Executive Director
Evita Sokol, Director of Youth Programs
Laura Greene , Adult Program Director
Rabbi Harvey M. Tattelbaum, Rabbi Emeritus
Cantor Bruce Ruben, Cantor Emeritus
Rabbi
Jonathan A. Stein
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Rabbi Jonathan A. Stein assumed his duties at Temple
Shaaray Tefila in July 2001. A native of Pottsown,
Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Wharton School
of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
in 1969 and was ordained as a rabbi in 1975 from Hebrew
Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR)
in Cincinnati. In 2000, he received an Doctor of Divinity
degree from the same seminary.
Rabbi Stein first served as the Assistant and then
as Associate Rabbi at Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation
from 1975 to 1978. He served IHC as its' Senior Rabbi
from 1978 to 1994. From 1994 through June 2001, Rabbi
Stein served as the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth
Israel in San Diego where he was Chair of the Board
of United Way of San Diego and as a member of the
San Diego Human Relations Commission.
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Rabbi Stein is the incoming editor of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) Journal and immediate
past-Chair of the CCAR Ad-Hoc Committee on Human Sexuality.
He is also a member of the Admissions Committee of
HUC-JIR in New York. He has served as a member, vice-president,
president, and chairman of more than 40 different
Jewish professional and communal organizations. He
has been published in Compass magazine and the CCAR
Journal, among others.
In 1969, Rabbi Stein married Susan Pollock, whom he
had met while both were in NFTY High School Youth
Group. They have two daughters, Rachel Rosner and
Jessica Stein, and two grandchildren, Andrew and Leah.
Susan Pollock Stein is a teacher and Educational Therapist
currently involved with various volunteer efforts,
focusing on the educational needs of the homeless.
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Rabbi Marci Bellows
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Rabbi Marci Bellows joined the staff
of Temple Shaaray Tefila in July 2004, filling the new position of Adult Program Director. She is very pleased to now be in the position of Assistant Rabbi, which allows her to get to know many more families and congregants in the Shaaray Tefila community.
Raised in Skokie, IL, she was ordained from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2004.
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Rabbi Bellows served as a rabbinic intern in Brandon, FL; Edison, NJ, at the URJ's Commission on Social Action and for the Women of Reform Judaism. She has also studied voice and theatre for many years.
At Temple Shaaray Tefila, Rabbi Bellows is actively involved with our committees, recruiting volunteers, creating new programs and coordinating the publicity of our programs and activities. |
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Cantor
Josee Wolff
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Cantor Josée Wolff is Director of Student Placement and a part time faculty member at the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Cantor Wolff has served Reform congregations in the US and Europe for the past 15 years. She was Director of the Department of Synagogue Music of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and served as cantor at Temple Shalom in Succasunna, NJ, Temple Beth Chaverim in Mahwah, NJ, Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City, the Liberal Jewish Congregation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas, USVI. She is a member of the executive board of the American Conference of Cantors, the School of Sacred Music Advisory Council, and the Joint Commission on Worship, Music and Religious Living.
In addition to her work at Hebrew Union College, Cantor Wolff enjoys leading worship and teaching about synagogue music and worship throughout the Progressive Jewish world. |
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Cantor Wolff has performed at numerous Cantorial concerts in the US, South America, Europe, and Israel and is a regularly featured performer at the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has led worship services and presented workshops at regional and national UAHC conventions and retreats, for the World Union of Progressive Judaism, The Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, at the Jewish Music Institute in London, LIMMUD, CAJE, the North American Jewish Choral Festival, and Cantorial conventions. Cantor Wolff can be heard on Shabbat Anthology and Songs from a Passover Haggadah (Transcontinental Music Publications), and Jubilee Concert (School of Sacred Music 50 th Anniversary recording). She is co-author of The Art of Torah Cantillation , and The Art of Cantillation, Volume 2 , published by UAHC Press, and music editor of the CCAR Hagadah, The Open Door . Cantor Wolff most recently produced the CD Tov Lehodot, Voices from the Dutch Liberal Community .
Cantor Wolff, a native of The Netherlands, holds a degree in flute from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and performed and recorded throughout Europe as a member of various chamber ensembles. In 1991 she received her Masters degree in Sacred Music from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music and was the first woman from the European continent to be invested as a cantor. |
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| Mindy Davids , Religious School Director of Education
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| Mindy B. Davids has been the Director of Religious Education at Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana , California since 1995, having served as the Director of Education at Temple Beth Torah in Melville , New York for the previous five years. In her current position, she is credited with the creation of several new programs within the synagogue including the Hebrew Connection, the Family Learning Circle , and an innovative two-year Adult Bnai Mitzvah curriculum.
She earned a double Masters degree in Jewish Education and Jewish Communal Service from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a Bachelors degree in Hebrew Studies from the University of Wisconsin . In addition, Mindy has completed coursework toward a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Fordham University , New York .
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Mindy currently serves as a Vice President of the National Association of Temple Educators and is a member of the clinical faculty of the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in Los Angeles . She is active in many areas of Jewish life including serving as a past-chair of HUC's Rhea Hirsch School of Education's alumni association, the current president of the Jewish Educator's Association of Orange County, a member of ADL's national education committee and the Orange County / Long Beach regional board, and as a member of the URJ Commission on Jewish Life Long Learning.
Mindy is thrilled to be returning to New York and is happy to be joining the Temple Shaaray Tefila family.
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| Sari
Luck Schneider, Nursery School Director |
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Sari Luck Schneider has been our Nursery
School Director since the school’s
founding in 1993. Born and raised in Milwaukee,
Sari worked for a number of years in magazine
publishing before turning to early-childhood
education. Sari was a teacher at Rodeph
Sholom and the first director of the Columbus
Preschool before joining us at Shaaray Tefila.
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Sari is the President of the Jewish Early
Childhood Association (JECA) of the Board
of Jewish Education. She is also co-chair of the Board
of the Independent School Admissions Association
of Greater New York (ISAAGNY).
Sari and her husband, Dr. Robert Schneider,
have two grown children, Michael and Lisa, and a grandchild, Lewis Morton O-Schneider.
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Nancy
Schneider, Executive Director
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Nancy Schneider has been with Temple Shaaray
Tefila since 1992. She was born in Phoenix
but has been a New Yorker since the age
of three. Nancy joined the professional
staff of Temple Shaaray Tefila after 20
successful years as an advertising executive.
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Nancy currently serves on the board of the
National Association of Temple Administrators
(NATA), is the President of the local chapter
(Metro NATA), and was chairperson of NATA’s
1998 national convention in Nashville.
She and her husband, Larry, reside in Manhattan.
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| Evita Sokol , Director of Youth Programs |
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Evita Sokol, Director of Youth Education, has been working at Temple Shaaray Tefila since July 2003.
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She received a BA from Columbia University in European History, a BA from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Modern Jewish Studies and a Masters in Jewish Education as well. |
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| Laura Greene, Adult Program Director
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Laura Greene joined the staff of Temple Shaaray Tefila in July, 2006, assuming the two-year old position of Adult Program Director as Rabbi Marci Bellows, originator of the position, stepped up to Assistant Rabbi. Laura is a native New Yorker who attended NYC public schools and earned her Master of Arts in Jewish history from the Jewish Theological Seminary. After several years with the UJA-Federation Joint Campaign and the World Union for Progressive Judaism, Laura began a 25-year career as a producer of business-to-business trade shows and conferences. |
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She returns to the world of Jewish communal work bringing with her an array of organizational, marketing and program development skills that will enrich our adult education, social action and cultural programming and facilitate committee planning, publicity, and volunteer recruitment and involvement. |
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| Rabbi
Harvey M. Tattelbaum, Rabbi Emeritus
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Rabbi Harvey M. Tattelbaum was appointed Rabbi Emeritus in July 2001,
after serving Temple Shaaray Tefila for 33 years.
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native of Boston, Rabbi Tattelbaum graduated with
honors from Harvard University and the Hebrew College
of Boston University simultaneously. He received
a traveling fellowship from the Hebrew College to
study for a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Upon his return to the US, he entered the NY School
of HUC-JIR from which he was ordained in 1960. He
then served as a Navy Chaplain assigned to the Marines
in Parris Island until 1962. His first congregation
was Temple Shaaray Tefila from 1962 to 1965. After
a stint at the Village Temple, Rabbi Tattelbaum returned
to Temple Shaaray Tefila as Senior Rabbi in 1971.
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Rabbi Tattelbaum served on the CCAR’s Chesed Committee, the Rabbinical
Mentoring Committee, the Committee on Soviet Jewry, the Program Committee
and the Executive Board. He has been the President of the New York Association
of Reform Rabbis, an HUC-JIR faculty member, and an Adjunct Professor of
Jewish Studies at Marymount College. Among his many community and worldwide
activities, he was instrumental in the formation of the Yorkville Common
Pantry (of which the Temple is a founder). He was sent by the World Union
for Progressive Judaism to the former Soviet Union to nurture congregations
there.
In 1960, Rabbi Tattelbaum married Meryl Herrmann. They have three adult
children, Adam, Polly, and Kate, and, many grandchildren. |
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Cantor Bruce Ruben, Cantor Emeritus
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Cantor Bruce Ruben has served Temple Shaaray Tefila since 1982. Raised in Portland, Oregon, he was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1981.
In 1997, while at Temple Shaaray Tefila, Cantor Ruben earned a Doctorate in History from the Graduate Center of City University. He has taught Jewish History at HUC-JIR, is on the faculty of the Evening Division of the Juilliard School, and is currently teaching at Hunter College.
At Temple Shaaray Tefila, Cantor Ruben, in addition to taking part in worship
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services, supervises the training of all our Bar and Bat Mitzvah students, is actively involved in adult education, and conducts our volunteer chorale.
He has worked with the Yorkville Christian Jewish Council, where he has also been honored for his interfaith programs. Cantor Ruben has composed and published many liturgical pieces of music. He serves on the editorial board of Transcontinental Music, and on the Joint Cantorial Placement Commission.
Cantor Ruben is married to Judith Clurman, a prominent choral conductor. Together they have a son, Ari.
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