Our Leadership
Rabbi: Rabbi Steven L. Jacobs
President: Joanna Jacobs
1st Vice President: Tracy Kellner
Second Vice President: Greg Goldstein
Treasurer: Sonni Besnoy
Finance: Ken DeWitt
Recording Secretary: Starr Davey
Immediate Past President: Jimmy Bank
Website/Communications: Cas Lisko
Building Committee: Greg Goldstein
Ritual Committee: Allen Rosen, Joanna Jacobs, Anna Singer, Murray Silverstone, Jesse Wheeler
Mitzvah Committee: Cas Lisko, Torin Alter
Membership Committee: Dan Novak
Adult Education: Amy Rogers
Social Committee: Lauren Ward Wilson
Religious School Representative: Murray Silverstone
Sisterhood Representative: Qiaoli Liang
Men's Club Representative: Kevin Besnoy
Legal Committee: Joel Sogol, Yuri Linetsky
Office Manager: Cas Lisko
President: Joanna Jacobs
1st Vice President: Tracy Kellner
Second Vice President: Greg Goldstein
Treasurer: Sonni Besnoy
Finance: Ken DeWitt
Recording Secretary: Starr Davey
Immediate Past President: Jimmy Bank
Website/Communications: Cas Lisko
Building Committee: Greg Goldstein
Ritual Committee: Allen Rosen, Joanna Jacobs, Anna Singer, Murray Silverstone, Jesse Wheeler
Mitzvah Committee: Cas Lisko, Torin Alter
Membership Committee: Dan Novak
Adult Education: Amy Rogers
Social Committee: Lauren Ward Wilson
Religious School Representative: Murray Silverstone
Sisterhood Representative: Qiaoli Liang
Men's Club Representative: Kevin Besnoy
Legal Committee: Joel Sogol, Yuri Linetsky
Office Manager: Cas Lisko
- For questions or issues relating to daily operations, including programming, activities, and committee ideas, please contact Tracy Kellner.
- For questions or requests pertaining to use of the building and facilities, please contact Greg Goldstein.
- For questions or concerns relating to the long-term goals and health of Temple Emanu-El, please contact Joanna Jacobs.
Our Rabbi
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Rabbi Steven L. Jacobs, the Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, is also the holder of the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama. We are extremely fortunate to have a scholar-rabbi who enjoys both the ritual and the teaching sides of the rabbinate, and who pays close attention to the spiritual and other needs of the children and adults of our congregation. Our board and officers feel most fortunate to have him lead our Temple.
Rabbi Jacobs joined the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama as Associate Professor and Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies on January 1, 2001 and received tenure as of August 2004. He received his B.A. from Penn State University; and his B.H.L., M.A.H.L., D.H.L., D.D., and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. A resident of Alabama for more than three decades, he has taught at Spring Hill College, Mobile; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham-Southern College, Samford University, Birmingham; the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Calhoun Community College, Huntsville; as well as serving congregations in Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville. |
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