Rabbi Alex is proud to be serving one of the first Reconstructionist synagogues and a place that Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionism, often came and shared his ideas. Several pictures of Kaplan hang proudly in his office.
Rabbi Alex and his wife Ashirah and daughter Jarah came to Temple Sinai in the summer of 2008. Before arriving at Sinai, Rabbi Alex served as the rabbi of JRF congregation Temple B’nai Abraham in Bordentown, New Jersey, from 2002-2008. In addition, he worked as both Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF), acting as liaison between the Reconstructionist movement and the 23 JRF congregations in Central/South Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, and the Director of Professional Partnership for the Jewish Outreach Partnership, working closely with the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and the Kehillot, or neighborhood consortiums, of Lower Merion, Center City and Old York Road. Rabbi Alex successfully completed a 15-month intensive chaplaincy training residency at Jeanes Hospital in North East Philadelphia and Albert Einstein Medical Center in North Philadelphia.
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 Bachelor’s degree 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.
Rabbi Alex is a 2004 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC).
He is currently working on publishing a collection of his poetry, short stories for children based on the Jewish year, as well as a musical adaptation of the story of Ruth
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