ALEPH Rabbis

ALEPH Rabbis include rabbis who received a primary ordination (or a secondary ordination after having already been ordained) under the guidance of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, as well as rabbis ordained by Bnai Or/Pnai Or Rabbinic Fellowship and the ALEPH Ordination Program(successor to Bnai Or/Pnai Or).

Rabbis are listed under their year of smicha/ordination. The symbolnext to the names during a given year (or season and year) indicates that those rabbis received their smicha/ordinationduring the same celebration.

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1974

Rabbi Daniel Siegel

1981

Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb

Rabbi Michael Paley

1983

Rabbi Dennis Beck-Berman

1984

Rabbi Yossel Steven Grodsky

1985

Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield, zl

Rabbi Nilton Bonder

1986

Rabbi Moshe Ben Asher

Rabbi Richard Simon

1987

Rabbi Shoni Labowitz, zl

Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Rabbi Sarah Leah Ayla Grafstein

Rabbi Leah Novick

Rabbi Gershon Winkler(previously ordained by Yeshivat Novaredok Bet Josef, Jerusalem)

Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man, zl

1988

Rabbi Jeff Roth (previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

Rabbi Ira Michael Flax

1989

Rabbi Rachel Denburg-Levine, zl

Rabbi Pamela Frydman (formerly Frydman Baugh)

1990

Rabbi Jack Schechtman Gabriel

Rabbi Alan Green

Rabbi Mark Sobel (previously ordained by Rabbi William Kraemer)

Rabbi Marcia Prager (previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

1991

Rabbi Reuel Karpov

Rabbi Yair Hillel Goelman

1992

Rabbi Steven Fisdel, zl

Rabbi Carol Carp

Rabbi Michael Klein

Rabbi David A. Cooper, zl

Rabbi Miriam Tirzah Firestone

1994

Rabbi Natan Lazer Segal, zl

Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank, zl (previously ordained by Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim)

1995

Rabbi Stan Levy

Rabbi Hadassah Weinstein (later known as Victoria London and Esther Rand)

Rabbi Daniel Goldblatt

Rabbi David Zaslow

Rabbi Jason Gaber, zl

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Rabbi Michael Lerner, zl

1996

Rabbi Michael Beihoff

Rabbi Miles Krassen

Rabbi Itzchak I. Marmorstein (previously ordained by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach)

Rabbi Moshe Waldoks

Rabbi Shefa Gold (previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

1997

Rabbi Stephanie Aaron

Rabbi Shaya Isenberg, zl

Rabbi Arlene Schuster

Rabbi Arnold Zoref z”l

Rabbi Michael Goldberger, zl

Rabbi Aryeh Alpern

1998

Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg

Rabbi David Mivasair(previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

Rabbi Nadya Gross

Rabbi Victor Gross

Rabbi Russel Fox

Rabbi Goldie Milgram (previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

1999

Rabbi Shawn Zevit (previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

Rabbi Menachem Kallus

2000

Rabbi Jacqueline Brodsky

Rabbi Bonnie Cohen

Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener

Rabbi Julie Hilton Danan

Rabbi Shoshanah Devorah

Rabbi Ellen Pildis

Rabbi Andreas Nachama

2001

Rabbi Robert Freedman (previously invested cantor by HUC-JIR and ordained as rabbi by Academy for Jewish Religion)

Rabbi Naomi Oren (Ehrenlis), zl

Rabbi Steven Silvern

Rabbi David Shneyer

2002

Rabbi Bonita Nathan Sussman

Rabbi Debora Kohn

Winter 2003

Rabbi Hannah Tiferet Siegel

Rabbi Fern Feldman

Summer 2003

Rabbi Tsurah August (previously ordained by Academy for Jewish Religion)

Rabbi Allison Rosenblith Berlinger

Rabbi Naomi Mara Hyman

Rabbi Raachel Jurovics, zl

Rabbi Alicia Magal (previously ordained by Academy for Jewish Religion)

Rabbi Reuben Modek (previously ordained by Academy for Jewish Religion)

Rabbi Shula Stevens Calmann

Autumn 2003

Rabbi Phyllis Ocean Berman

Rabbi Ruth Gan Kagan

Rabbi Elisa Klapheck

Rabbi Jolan Fredda Shafir Lobb

2004

Rabbi Marc Labowitz (w/R’Michael Shapiro & Herschel Worsch)

Rabbi Andrew Ettin

Rabbi Jonathan Seidel

Winter 2005

Rabbi Eli Cohen

Rabbi David J Cooper

Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan

Rabbi Robert Saunders

Rabbi SaraLeya Schley

Rabbi Louis Sutker

Summer 2005

Rabbi Chava Bahle (Stacie Fine)

Rabbi Shalom Schachter

2006

Rabbi Chaya Gusfield

Rabbi Lori Klein

Rabbi Eyal Levinson

Rabbi Geela Rayzel Robinson-Raphael (previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

2007

Rabbi Karyn Berger

Rabbi Tmimah Ickovitz

2008

Rabbi Dale Schreiber (also ordained as rabbinic pastor in 2004)

Rabbi Jay Yussele Weinstein (also ordained as rabbinic pastor in 2000)

2009

Rabbi Leila Gal Berner (previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

Rabbi Adalah Caplowe

Rabbi Ori Har DiGennaro

Rabbi Miri Fleming

Rabbi Leana Moritt (previously ordained by Academy for Jewish Religion)

Rabbi Sue Morningstar

Rabbi Ed Stafman

2010

Rabbi Elisheva Brenner

Rabbi Lynn Claire Feinberg

Rabbi D’vorah Rose

Rabbi Jan Salzman

Rabbi Elhanan Sunny Schnitzer (previously ordained as cantor by Academy for Jewish Religion)

Rabbi Jeff Schulman

Rabbi DebrahShenefelt

Rabbi Orna Triguboff

Rabbi Melissa Wenig (also ordained as rabbinic pastor in 2006)

2011

Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

Rabbi Simcha Daniel Burstyn

Rabbi Yafa Chase

Rabbi Meira Chmiel

Rabbi Debra Ruth Kolodny

Rabbi Shulamit Barbara Thiede

Rabbi Simcha Zevit

Rabbi David Ingber (private ordination from RabbiZalman Schachter-Shalomi)

2012

Rabbi Efraim Eisen

Rabbi Mark Elber

Rabbi Ilan Glazer

Rabbi Mark Novak

Rabbi Jeremy Parnes

Rabbi Itzhak Vardy

2013

Rabbi Kevin Hale (previously ordained by Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)

Rabbi Hannah Ableman Laner

Rabbi Elyse Seidner-Joseph

2014

Rabbi Aura Bartfeld Ahuvia

Rabbi Bella Bogart

Rabbi Hannah Shirah Dresner

Rabbi Cynthia Joy Hoffman

Rabbi Hannah Nathans

Rabbi Marc Soloway (previously ordained by AJU Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies)

2015

Rabbi Richard Backer

Rabbi Bonna Haberman zl

Rabbi Evan Krame

Rabbi Rebecca Kushner

Rabbi David Evan Markus

Rabbi Abby Michaleski

Rabbi Lori Shaller

Rabbi Rhonda Shapiro-Rieser

Rabbi David Teva

Rabbi Shifrah Tobacman

Rabbi Rain Zohav

2016

Rabbi Eva Sax-Bolder

Rabbi Beth Cohen

Rabbi Cherina Eisenberg

Rabbi Nahariyah Mosenkis

Rabbi Debra Smith

2017

Rabbi Rachel Hersh (previously certified as cantor)

Rabbi Diane Tiferet Lakein

Rabbi Susan Shamash

Rabbi Jennifer Singer

2018

Rabbi Esther Azar

Rabbi Elias David Curiel

Rabbi Zelig Golden

Rabbi Jason Mann

Rabbi Ken Rosenstein

Rabbi Betsy Eve Roth

Rabbi Jessica K. Shimberg

Rabbi Ellen K. Triebwasser

2019

Rabbi David R.E. Aladjem

Rabbi Laurie Franklin

Rabbi Maury Hoberman

Rabbi Seth F. Oppenheimer

Rabbi Amy Grossblatt Pessah

Rabbi Jonathan Zasloff

2020

Rabbi Zeh Jos Amarante

Rabbi Caryn Aviv

Rabbi Alan Scott Bachman

Rabbi Shir Yaakov Feit

Rabbi Dara Lithwick

Rabbi Mem Mary Ellen Movshin z”l

Rabbi Elca Rubinstein

Rabbi Pauline Tamari z”l

Rabbi Brett Tancer

2021

Rabbi Sarah Tauber z”l

Rabbi Sharona Grinsteiner

Rabbi Irwin Keller

Rabbi George Mordecai (previously ordained as cantor by Jewish Theological Seminary)

Rabbi Lex Rofeberg

Rabbi Charna Rosenholtz

Rabbi Carl Woolf

2022

Rabbi Eugene Fleischman-Sotirescu

Rabbi ChanaOra Miller

Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahary

Rabbi Adrianne Pasternak

Rabbi Lisa Vendeland

2023

Rabbi Nachshon Carmi

Rabbi Juliet Elkind-Cruz

Rabbi Alan Levin

Rabbi Deni Marshall

Rabbi Heather Paul

Rabbi Cat Zavis

2024

Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal

Rabbi Rachel Dorit Goldberg

Rabbi Moshe King

Rabbi Andrea Kuti

Rabbi Paige Lincenberg

Rabbi Hazzan Gabrielle Pescador

Rabbi Lisa Rappaport

Rabbi Emily Stern

Rabbi Jericho Vincent