Serving Hudson County’s Progressive Jewish Community for Over 150 Years

Former Clergy

Temple Beth-El has been served by distinguished clergy whose leadership has engaged, consoled, and inspired this congregation throughout our 150-year+ history.

1864 – ? Rev. Friedman*
1871 – ? Rev. Goldman
1895 – 1896 Rev. Rozenzweig
1898 – 1900 Rev. Julius Silberfeld
1901 – 1903 Rev. Rosenberg
1904 – 1907 Rev. A. Ableson
1908 – 1909 Rev. Nathan Wolf
1909 – 1914 Rabbi L. J. Goetz
1914 – 1937 Rabbi Maurice Thorner
1934 – 1986 Cantor Abraham Berman
1936 – 1986 Rabbi Samuel A. Berman
1986 – 1989 Rabbi Bruce Block
1989 – 2011 Rabbi Kenneth Brickman
2011 – 2017 Rabbi Debra Hachen
2011 -2012 Cantor Rebecca Joy Fletcher
2017 – 2018 Rabbi Brian Beal (interim)
2018 – Rabbi Leana Moritt
2019 – 2020 Cantor Risa Wallach

* The Congregation was known as the Isaac Ephraim Congregation at this time.

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