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.
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
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
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
Rabbi Eugene Fleischman-Sotirescu
Rabbi ChanaOra Miller
Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahary
Rabbi Adrianne Pasternak
Rabbi Lisa Vendeland
Rabbi Nachshon Carmi
Rabbi Juliet Elkind-Cruz
Rabbi Alan Levin
Rabbi Deni Marshall
Rabbi Heather Paul
Rabbi Cat Zavis
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