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.
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)