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CLERGY : Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson
Rabbi Davidson is the Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester. He is president of the Chappaqua Interfaith Council, and Chaplain of the New Castle Fire Department. From 2001-2006, he served as Chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis’ Committee on Justice, Peace and Religious Liberties and Vice-Chair of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism. Currently he chairs the Commission's task force on Israel and World Affairs.
Prior to his arrival at Temple Beth El in 2002, Rabbi Davidson served for five years at Central Synagogue in New York City, advising that synagogue’s award-winning Social Action Committee. His work includes interfaith dialogue, anti-death penalty advocacy and gay/lesbian inclusion. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Kavod Tzedakah Collective, which distributes money to those living in circumstances where kavod, “dignity,” is lacking. He is also a member of the Board of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and of the Hebrew Union College President’s Rabbinic Council.
Rabbi Davidson was born in Great Neck, New York. He graduated from Princeton University in 1990, received a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles in 1995, and was ordained at the New York campus in 1997. He is married to Cantor Mia Fram Davidson. They have a daughter, Helena.
Rabbi Davidson can be reached at: rabbistudy@bethelnw.org or at 238-3928 ext 223
Rabbi Davidson's High Holiday Sermons - 5767
Rabbi Davidson's Rosh Hashanah Sermon-5768
Rabbi Davidson's Yom Kippur Sermon-5768
Rabbi Davidson's Yikor Sermon-5768
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CLERGY : Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman
Rabbi Mitelman is the new Assistant Rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester.
Ordained by HUC-JIR in Cincinnati in 2007, Rabbi Mitelman received The Cora Kahn Prize from the Cincinnati faculty for the most outstanding sermon delivery and oratory. While at HUC-JIR, he was the student rabbi at B’nai Israel Synagogue in Grand Forks, North Dakota and Temple Oheb Shalom in Sandusky, Ohio. Over the summers, he interned at the Union for Reform Judaism in the Department of Jewish Family Concerns, co-editing a book on congregational inclusion; gained pastoral experience at Westchester County Medical Center; and worked with teenagers at Kutz and Eisner Camps.
In addition to his practical experience, Rabbi Mitelman is also an enthusiastic scholar. His interest in the intersection of Judaism and psychology led him to his rabbinic thesis, “Rabbinic Thought Through the Lens of Emotional Intelligence.” Additionally, he was selected to represent HUC-JIR at an international interfaith study conference in Krakow, Poland entitled “Building Towards the Future: Jewish-Christian Relations in Cultural Context.”
A native of Westchester County, New York, Rabbi Mitelman grew up in Briarcliff Manor, belonged to Woodlands Community Temple in White Plains, and graduated from Hackley School in Tarrytown. A Religion and Jewish Studies major at Princeton University, he graduated in 2000 with multiple prizes for scholarship in Judaic and Biblical Studies. He is a voracious reader (especially books on science, psychology, history, and politics), and ever since he went to his first game at age seven, he has been an ardent Yankees fan.
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CLERGY : Cantor Dana Anesi
Cantor Dana S. Anesi was born in Brooklyn, NY, and grew up in Freehold, New Jersey. While in high school, she was an active member of her youth group, and a songleader for the Jersey Federation of Temple Youth - part of the youth movement of the Union for Reform Judaism. She has been a camper, staff member, and faculty member at the URJ’s Kutz Camp; a staff and faculty member at the Eisner Camp-Institute, and served on the faculty for a URJ Summer Kallah. She graduated from HUC-JIR’s School of Sacred Music in 1980, served Temple Beth Torah in Dix Hills, NY for 2 years, and has been the cantor at Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester in Chappaqua, NY since 1982.
Cantor Anesi is past president of the Cantorial Alumni Association; a former member of the Alumni Council of HUC-JIR; a current member of the School of Sacred Music Advisory Council, and until recently chaired the Joint Cantorial Placement Commission for the URJ, which oversees the placement of cantors for the Reform movement. She received an honorary doctorate in 2005 from HUC-JIR, and is currently a student in the Doctor of Ministry program, also at HUC-JIR.
Cantor Anesi has one child, David Troupp, who is a second year student at Cardozo Law School in New York City.
Cantor Anesi can be reached at: danesi@bethelnw.org or at 238-3928 ext 213
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