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CLERGY : Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson
Rabbi Joshua Davidson is the Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester. He is president of the Westchester Board of Rabbis, immediate past 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.
His work includes anti-death penalty advocacy, gay/lesbian inclusion, and interfaith dialogue. In November 2009, Rabbi Davidson was honored for his interfaith efforts by the American Jewish Committee and the Westchester Jewish Conference.
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. 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 Hebrew Union College President’s Rabbinic Council and the Clergy Advisory Board of Interfaith Impact of New York State, and a past board member of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America.
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 two daughters, Helena and Mikaela.
or at 238-3928 ext 223
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Rabbi Davidson's High Holiday Sermons - 5767
Rabbi Davidson's Rosh Hashanah Sermon-5768
Rabbi Davidson's Yom Kippur Sermon-5768
Rabbi Davidson's Yizkor Sermon-5768
Rabbi Davidson's Rosh Hashanah Sermon -- 5771
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CLERGY : Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman
Rabbi Mitelman is the Associate 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. He was selected by CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, to be one of twenty “Rabbis Without Borders,” a national program that seeks to position rabbis as American religious leaders and spiritual innovators who contribute Jewish wisdom to the American spiritual landscape. He was also chosen to be one of twelve rabbis in the initial group of the Balfour Brickner Fellowship, a joint program with CLAL and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism that aims to integrate Jewish textual tradition with modern social and political issues. Additionally, he represented 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 is the Senior Cantor of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester. She 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 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’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 currently the Chair of the Alumni Council of HUC-JIR, and in 2008 became the first non-rabbinic alumnae/nus to serve on HUC-JIR’s Board of Governors. She is a past president of the Cantorial Alumni Association; a current member of the School of Sacred Music Advisory Council, and for several years 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 a student in the Doctor of Ministry program, also at HUC-JIR, from which she has earned a certificate in Clinical Education for the Pastoral Ministry.
Cantor Anesi has one child, David Troupp, who has just completed his final year at Benjamin Cardozo Law School in New York City.
Cantor Dana Anesi can be reached at 238-3928 ext. 213 or via email at danesi@bethelnw.org.
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CLERGY : Cantor Ellen Dreskin
Ellen Dreskin is a teacher of liturgy, synagogue transformation, and mysticism. She has served for many years on the faculty of URJ Summer Kallot, Hava Nashira, and the URJ Kutz Camp Leadership Academy. Ellen has worked with Jews of all denominations from Houston to Chicago and Los Angeles to Boston, both as a scholar in residence and in her capacity as Director of Programs for Synagogue 2000, a national, not-for-profit institute dedicated to revitalizing and re-energizing synagogue life in North America. She has served as both Cantor and Educator at Woodlands Community Temple in White Plains, New York and at Anshe Chesed-Fairmount Temple in Cleveland, Ohio, and as the spiritual leader of Chavurat Tikvah in Westchester County, New York. Ellen has also served as Associate Dean of HUC-JIR in New York, and sings with Beged Kefet, a musical tzedakah collective. Ellen is a native Texan, a 1986 graduate of HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music, and has a Master’s Degree in Jewish Communal Service from Brandeis University.
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