CLERGY, BOARD & STAFF

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RABBI ANTHONY KNOPF

Mara D'atra

Rabbi Anthony Knopf is a Rabbi and community educator from Manchester, England who previously served as Associate Rabbi at Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue in London and as Rabbi of Camps Bay Shul in Cape Town. From a Bnei Akiva background, Knopf got his BA in Theology from Cambridge University in 2002 and achieved his Semicha in 2006 from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg in Israel.

“I teach Torah in a way which shows its relevance to the issues people grapple with in everyday life and to social justice. I am passionate about understanding and teaching Jewish values and exploring the ways in which communities can reflect those values. I believe strongly in the power of community to bring out the best in people and to form a space for applying and living Jewish values.”

Rabbi Knopf is married to Carly and has four children: Dovid, Rachelli, Yehuda and Avrami.

RABBI HESHY BENSHIMON

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Shaliach Tzibur

Rabbi Heshy Benshimon is a native Montrealer who graduated from the Rabbinical College of Montreal in 2007 and got his degree in scriptural writing in Melbourne Australia.

From 2008-2010, Rabbi Benshimon studied Rabbinic Ordinance and got his degree in slaughtering and rabbinic ordination. He lived in Israel for six months and then moved back to Montreal and gave Torah classes in the Yeshiva and Beth Rivkah, and continued writing scriptures.

Rabbi Benshimon is married to Sarah and has three children, Natan, Shalom and Menachem Mendel.

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STEPHANIE TABAC

President

stephanie.tabac@bethora.org

EXECUTIVE & BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Stephanie Tabac - President

Eric Dym - 1st Vice President

Steven Kronish - 2nd Vice President

Gil Perez - 3rd Vice President

Ron Gluck - Treasurer

Rebecca Alter - Secretary

Benjie Smith - Gabbai

Nadine Anders - Immediate Past President

Gerry Abish - Trustee

Marvin Braude - Trustee

Jacquie Ludwick - Trustee

Leonard Sitcoff - Trustee

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mary Boeko, Howard Brown, Arlene Dym, Dora Edelstein, Saul Edelstein, Guy Elbaz, Irwin Glazer, George Gross, Murray Itscovitch, Hana Lipkowitz, George Lubell, Aron Rosenzweig, Miriam Rosenzweig, Sandy Sitcoff, Steve Tabac, Mendy Waxman.

STAFF

Adam Luxenberg- Manager of Administration- adam.luxenberg@bethora.org