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Officers
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Rabbi
Howard Morrison (President)
Howard Morrison, the spiritual leader of Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue,
grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. There, he attended the Maimonides
Day School for elementary and high school. He attended services at the
Young Israel Synagogue and Congregation Kehillath Israel.
After spending his undergraduate years at Boston University and
the Hebrew College, Rabbi Morrison entered the Rabbinical School at the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America. His rabbinical training included a year of study at
Neve Schechter and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
As a student, he officiated High Holy Day Services for two years at
Congregation Sons of Israel in Webster, Massachusetts and served as
part-time Rabbi for one year at Temple Emanuel in Parkchester, N.Y.
After receiving his ordination, Rabbi Morrison assumed the position of
Rabbi at Congregation Beth Shalom in Union New Jersey for four years
and then assumed the position of Rabbi at the Wantagh Jewish Center in
Long Island, N.Y. for nine years.
Rabbi Morrison served as corresponding secretary for the Rabbinical
Assembly of Nassau-Suffolk Counties in New York. He served on the Long
Island Board of Rabbis as well as the New York Board of Rabbis. He was
the principal teacher for the Rabbinical Assembly Hillel Institute of
Jewish Studies, Nassau Branch, for prospective Jews by choice. In Long
Island, he served as secretary for the Wantagh Clergy Council, an
interfaith Clergy organization. Rabbi Morrison also served as Jewish
Chaplain to the Central Island Health Care Facility. In addition, he
currently serves in the U.S. Air Force as
a Reserve Chaplain, performing most of his duties at McGuire Air Force
Base in southern New Jersey.
Rabbi Morrison is married to Joanna, a certified Jewish educator, who
hails from East Brunswick, New Jersey. They have two sons, Elie Natan
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Rabbi David Seed (Secretary)
Rabbi David Seed is associate rabbi of Adath
Israel Congregation since 2003. He currently serves as the president of
the Ontario Region of the Rabbinical Assembly and also serves on the Social
Action and Resolutions Committees of the international Rabbinical
Assembly. Prior to coming to Toronto, he
was a rabbi in Philadelphia where he also served
as the Rav HaMachshir (Kashrut Supervisor) for the Rabbinical Assembly in Philadelphia.
In his congregational and communal work here
in Toronto, he
has taken an active role in engaging people in acts of social justice and the
doing of gemilut chasadim (deeds of lovingkindness).
Rabbi Seed was ordained in 1983 from the
Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and
also received his Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University
the following year. He is married with three children. |
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Rabbi Sharon Sobel (Treasurer)
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Contact
Rabbi Shekel by email.
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Rabbi Michal Shekel (Executive Director)
Rabbi Michal Shekel is the executive director of the Toronto
Board of Rabbis and the rabbi of Iyr HaMelech in Kingston, Ontario.
Ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, she began
her rabbinic studies as a member of the first class of women accepted to the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She has served congregations in Toronto, London, Waterloo, Boston, and New Jersey. Rabbi Shekel also teaches adult classes in Toronto covering a
variety of Jewish topics and writes a weekly on-line Torah study for Kolel.
Rabbi Shekel is the co-editor of the holiday section of
myjewishlearning.com. She is also the author of numerous textbooks used in Jewish
schools throughout North America and has contributed articles to a variety of
Jewish publications such as The Women’s
Torah Commentary (ed. Goldstein, Jewish Lights, 2000). Among the honours
she has received, Rabbi Shekel is the recipient of a Bronfman Rabbinic
Leadership scholarship.
Rabbi Shekel is a board member of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis and has served as the chairperson of the
Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto. She has been a board
member of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, and the Christian Jewish Dialogue
of Toronto. She has also served on the boards
of organizations dealing with Jewish continuity and education, outreach,
interfaith issues, racism, and drug and substance abuse.
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Rabbi Michael Dolgin (Past President)
Rabbi Dolgin, Senior Rabbi of Temple Sinai
congregation, was ordained at HUC-JIR in May, 1992 and is proud to have
served as assistant and Associate Rabbi of Temple Sinai. Though
originally from Chicago, IL, Michael attended university at
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he received a
bachelor's and a master's degree in speech communication.
During university, he took training in crisis counselling and worked
for three years as a volunteer at Oxford Crisis and Referral Centre.
While in rabbinical school, Michael served as a part-time instructor at
his alma mater where he taught interpersonal communication and public
speaking. Rabbi Dolgin's scholarly interests focus upon the earliest
stages of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary text of that period, the
Mishnah.
Rabbi Dolgin is married, and he and Joan have three sons, Andrew,
Matthew, and Zachary.
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