Rabbi Hannah Kingston

Rabbi Hannah joined the Rabbinic Team at Alyth in 2017.  She is currently on maternity leave until early 2024.

Hannah grew up at Southgate Progressive Synagogue and spent many summers at Kutz Camp, a Reform Jewish summer camp in America.  It was here, inspired by the rabbis and passionate leaders she met, that Hannah felt that she wanted to share her love for Judaism.  Becoming a rabbi seemed the natural way to do this.  She was ordained in summer 2017 when she also joined the Alyth team.

As well as sharing in general rabbinic responsibilities, Hannah has a specific role of building relationships and programming to respond to the needs of the many young families who make Alyth their home.

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Cantor Tamara Wolfson

Cantor Tamara joined the Clergy Team at Alyth in 2020. She is currently on maternity leave until early 2024.

Tamara was born and raised in New York and grew up surrounded by music at home, at school, and at her synagogue. She was a frequent cantorial soloist at her home synagogue, Temple Israel Center of White Plains. Tamara received a Bachelor’s Degree in Jewish Studies from the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, and then went on to cantorial studies at HUC-JIR’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music in New York.

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Student Rabbi Nicola Feuchtwang

Nicola grew up at Alyth and is proud to have been ‘part of the furniture’ for many years – with roles including learner, teacher, ‘para-rabbinic’ lay reader, choir, Council & Executive, warden, to name but a few.  In the wider Jewish community, she has also had involvement with the Reform Movement, the World Union for Progressive Judaism, and as a trustee and Chair of Raphael Jewish Counselling.

Meanwhile, Nicola earned her living within the NHS as a specialist paediatrician, focusing on child development, adoption & fostering, and advocacy for children and families in adverse circumstances.  She tried to “retire” in 2018, planning to spend more time studying and volunteering, but was then persuaded to apply for the Rabbinic Programme at Leo Baeck College.

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Rabbi Emeritus Josh Levy

Rabbi Josh Levy was a full time rabbi at Alyth from 2008 until 2023, when he became CEO of The Movement for Reform Judaism and was appointed Rabbi Emeritus.

He is a Lecturer in Rabbinic Literature at Leo Baeck College, teaching a course in Progressive Rabbinic Decision Making.  Previously, he served as Chair of the Assembly of Reform Rabbis and Cantors, as Chair of the Standing Committee of the Reform Bet Din, and led the working group looking at issues of Inherited Status, which changed the way that the Reform movement welcomes people with Jewish and non-Jewish lineage.

Josh is passionate about developing innovative and engaging tefillah, and about sharing the joys of high-level text study.  His areas of special interest are the Reform relationship with Halakhah (Jewish Law), and issues of conversion and status, having written his rabbinic thesis on Tractate Gerim of the Babylonian Talmud which deals with laws of converts and conversion.

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