ALEPH Rabbinic Pastors

ALEPH Rabbinic Pastors include those rabbinic pastors who received ordination under the guidance of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as well as rabbinic pastors ordained by B’nai Or/P’nai Or Rabbinic Fellowship and the ALEPH Ordination Program (successor to B’nai Or/P’nai Or).

Rabbinic Pastors are listed under their year of smicha/ordination. The symbol “•” next to the names during a given year indicates that those rabbinic pastors received smicha/ordination during the same celebration.

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1987

Rabbinic Pastor Mindy Ruth Novick

1988

Rabbinic Pastor Andy Gold z”l

1990

Rabbinic Pastor Lev Friedman (also ordained as a cantor)

Rabbinic Pastor Simcha Paull Raphael

2000

Rabbi Jay Yussele Weinstein (also ordained as rabbi in 2008)

2001

Rabbinic Pastor Shulamit Kate Fagan

Rabbinic Pastor Leon Olenick

2004

Rabbinic Pastor Dale Schreiber (also ordained as rabbi in 2008)

2005

•Rabbinic Pastor Ellen Weaver

•Rabbinic Pastor Pinchas Zohav

2006

•Rabbinic Pastor Edwin Harris (subsequently received private rabbinic ordination)

•Rabbinic Pastor Melissa Wenig (also ordained as rabbi in 2010)

2007

•Rabbinic Pastor Aggie Goldenholz

•Rabbinic Pastor David Daniel Klipper

2008

Rabbinic Pastor Renae Toben

2009

•Rabbinic Pastor Miryam Levy

•Rabbinic Pastor De Fischler Herman

•Rabbinic Pastor Sherril Gilbert

•Rabbinic Pastor Aliza Erber

2011

•Rabbinic Pastor Matia Rania Angelou

•Rabbinic Pastor Judith Goleman

2012

•Rabbinic Pastor Shayndel Kahn

•Rabbinic Pastor Stephanie Tivona Reith

•Rabbinic Pastor Naomi Tzril Saks

2013

•Rabbinic Pastor Patrice Spitz

•Rabbinic Pastor Larissa Blechman

•Rabbinic Pastor Sandra Wortzel

2014

Rabbinic Pastor Joni Brenner

2015

Rabbinic Pastor Heena Reiter

2016

•Rabbinic Pastor Nalini Indorf Kaplan

•Rabbinic Pastor Katyah Gohr

2018

Rabbinic Pastor Lisa Levine (also ordained as cantor by HUC-JIR DFSSM)

2019

Rabbinic Pastor Ruth Delfiner

2021

Rabbinic Pastor Chaya Lerner

2022

•Rabbinic Pastor Nancy Shapiro

•Rabbinic Pastor Carl Viniar

2024

Rabbinic Pastor Leigh Copeland