Experience and formation
Reform rabbi and educator with experience in congregational leadership, curriculum development, worship, music, and pastoral care. Assistant KESHER Director and Music and Tefilah Specialist at Larchmont Temple, combining educational and operational responsibilities with continuing musical leadership.
CONGREGATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Larchmont Temple
Assistant KESHER Director and Music and Tefilah Specialist | July 2026–Present
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Partner with the Director of KESHER and Lifelong Learning, clergy, and staff to shape educational vision and programming.
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Help redesign the K–7 spiral curriculum, strengthening continuity across grades.
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Mentor educators, support program operations, and build relationships with learners and families.
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Carry growing educational and operational responsibilities while continuing music, tefillah, and worship leadership.
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Collaborate with clergy on family learning, worship, and congregation-wide programs.
Larchmont Temple
Music & Education Specialist | August 2025–July 2026
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Taught Jewish studies and led tefillah in KESHER and congregational settings.
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Led music with children’s choirs and Tot Shabbat alongside clergy; participated in Shabbat, festival, and High Holy Day worship.
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Helped edit, direct, and facilitate Purim shpiels.
PASTORAL CARE
NYU Langone Health
Chaplain Intern | 2023–2024
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Completed three units of Clinical Pastoral Education.
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Provided spiritual care in more than 1,500 encounters with patients and families facing illness, grief, trauma, and end-of-life decisions.
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Collaborated with interdisciplinary medical teams and served people across backgrounds and beliefs.
RABBINIC EXPERIENCE
Hevreh of Southern Berkshires
Rabbinic Intern | 2021–2023
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Led Shabbat and holiday worship, preached, and taught adult Torah study.
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Prepared b’nai mitzvah students, developed holiday programming, and led youth-group music and activities.
EARLIER EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Judaic Studies Teacher & Teen Program Coordinator | 2019–2021
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Designed curricula on Jewish identity, ethics, and contemporary Jewish life.
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Advised teens and built relationships with families.
NFTY in Israel
Unit Supervisor and Rosh Tefillah | Summer 2018
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Led worship and supervised more than 100 teen participants and staff.
EDUCATION
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Rabbinic Ordination, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, 2024
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M.A., Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, 2022
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M.A., Religious Education, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, 2020
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Experiential Educators Program, Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, 2017
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B.A., Jewish Antiquity, cum laude, Clark University, 2012
SELECTED SKILLS & DISTINCTIONS
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Fluent Hebrew; songleading and guitar
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Creator of VisualMidrash: Jewish text interpretation through visual art
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JDC Entwine Weitzman Fellow