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Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein
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Temple Sinai's new Rabbi, Alex Lazarus-Klein, will officially take office on September 1,
2008. he will be visiting several times during the summer--check Weekly Updates for details.
Alex comes to Temple Sinai from the Philadelphia area. There he served as the rabbi of Temple
B’nai Abraham in Bordentown, New Jersey for the past five years.
Shortly after graduating from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) in 2004, he was the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Director for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF), acting as
liaison between the Reconstructionist movement and the 23 JRF congregations in Central/South
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
In 2006-2007, Alex served as the Director of Professional Partnership for the Jewish Outreach
Partnership. There he worked closely with the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and the
Kehillot, or neighborhood consortiums, of Lower Merion, Center City and Old York Road.
Most recently, Alex has been in the process of completing the necessary 4 units of Clinical
Pastoral Education (CPE) at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA, to become a
certified chaplain.
As an undergraduate, he attended the Joint Program between the Jewish Theological Seminary, where
he received a Bachelors degree in Jewish History and later a Masters in Jewish Education, and
Columbia University, where he received a Bachelors in Writing and Literature.
After college he taught Jewish studies and Hebrew for several years in Orlando at the Hebrew Day
School of Central Florida.
He is currently working on publishing a collection of his poetry.
Rabbi Alex moves to Buffalo with his wife Ashirah and baby daughter Jarah and is looking forward
to learning and growing with Temple Sinai.
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