Rabbi Leora Abelson
Rabbi Leora Abelson served as the rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim in Attleboro, MA from 2016 to 2020. She now serves as the rabbi of Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue in Jamaica Plain, in Boston.
Rabbi Abelson joined the Agudas Achim community as their religious leader while she was still a rabbinical student, and she received rabbinic ordination and an MA in Judaic Studies from Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Newton, Massachusetts in June 2017. As part of her training, she served as a rabbinic intern at Temple Reyim in Newton, MA, taught at Temple Israel in Boston, and led High Holy Day services in Traverse City, MI, and Amherst, MA. She was also a fellow at the Center for Interreligious and Communal Leadership Education.
Rabbi Leora is passionate about queer and feminist theology and making the ancient wisdom of the Jewish tradition accessible to social movements and anyone building a just and peaceful world. She lives with her partner Ray-ray in Jamaica Plain, MA and loves to cook, read novels, make music, and spend time in the woods or at the ocean.
Rabbi Abelson joined the Agudas Achim community as their religious leader while she was still a rabbinical student, and she received rabbinic ordination and an MA in Judaic Studies from Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Newton, Massachusetts in June 2017. As part of her training, she served as a rabbinic intern at Temple Reyim in Newton, MA, taught at Temple Israel in Boston, and led High Holy Day services in Traverse City, MI, and Amherst, MA. She was also a fellow at the Center for Interreligious and Communal Leadership Education.
Rabbi Leora is passionate about queer and feminist theology and making the ancient wisdom of the Jewish tradition accessible to social movements and anyone building a just and peaceful world. She lives with her partner Ray-ray in Jamaica Plain, MA and loves to cook, read novels, make music, and spend time in the woods or at the ocean.
Rabbi Carol Glass
Rabbi Carol Glass is a former staff chaplain at Rhode Island Hospital. She is a spiritual director, Mussar group facilitator, and Reiki practitioner in Newton Center, Massachusetts.
Rabbi Carolan Glatstein
Rabbi Carolan Glatstein was ordained in 2014 from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. During rabbinical school, she earned two units of Clinical Pastoral Education doing chaplaincy work at Good Samaritan, Jewish, and Cincinnati Children’s Hospitals. She also interned at a synagogue where she was extensively involved in the education and music programs. Previously, she attended the University of Kansas, earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She formerly served United Brothers Synagogue in Bristol. She now serves Tree of Life Congregation in Columbia, South Carolina.
Rabbi Amy Levin
Rabbi Amy Levin is the founder and director of Pirka, Mobile Jewish Learning (www.pirkalearning.net). From 2004 to 2014, she served Temple Torat Yisrael, a Conservative congregation in East Greenwich, RI.
Rabbi Levin grew up in New Jersey and worked as the Education Director of a collaborative Hebrew High School program for three Conservative congregations in New Jersey before making aliyah in 1981.
Rabbi Levin was the second woman to be ordained by the Schechter Institute of Jewish studies, the rabbinic seminary of the Israeli Masorti (Conservative) Movement and served as a congregational rabbi in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Levin is a past President of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island, is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards and was active in the East Greenwich Clergy Association.
Since 2008, Rabbi Levin has served as a mentor for senior rabbinical students at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York who are fellows of the Legacy Heritage Rabbinic Fellows Program.
Rabbi Levin grew up in New Jersey and worked as the Education Director of a collaborative Hebrew High School program for three Conservative congregations in New Jersey before making aliyah in 1981.
Rabbi Levin was the second woman to be ordained by the Schechter Institute of Jewish studies, the rabbinic seminary of the Israeli Masorti (Conservative) Movement and served as a congregational rabbi in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Levin is a past President of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island, is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards and was active in the East Greenwich Clergy Association.
Since 2008, Rabbi Levin has served as a mentor for senior rabbinical students at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York who are fellows of the Legacy Heritage Rabbinic Fellows Program.
Rabbi Peter Stein
Rabbi Stein served as the spiritual leader of Temple Sinai in Cranston. He is now the Senior Rabbi of Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester, New York.
Rabbi Stein was ordained and earned a MA in Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, studying in Jerusalem and New York City. His undergraduate studies were at Cornell University, and he also completed the Jewish Leaders Program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Rabbi Stein is an alumnus of the Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship of CLAL and the Brickner Fellowship of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. He has also completed the Professional Affiliates training of the Jewish Outreach Institute.
In Rochester, Rabbi Stein is engaged with a number of community organizations. He is treasurer of the Rochester Board of Rabbis and a member of the Jewish Federation Community Relations Committee. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School, teaching classes in rabbinic literature and Jewish biblical interpretation.
Nationally, Rabbi Stein serves the Central Conference of American Rabbis as Dues Chairperson and as part of the Convention and Budget and Finance Committees. He is also a mentor for newly ordained rabbis through the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the CCAR, and he has served on camp faculty at three different Union for Reform Judaism camps.
Rabbi Stein has a commitment to social justice work and interfaith endeavors. He is a proud member of Planned Parenthood’s national Clergy Advocacy Board. In 2015, he walked in Alabama and Georgia as part of the NAACP Journey for Justice, and he has a longstanding engagement with issues of LGBTQ equality and poverty. He participated in a dialogue program and a Papal Audience at the Vatican in 2007 and has been involved in significant relationships with the Catholic, Christian, and Muslim community. He is proud to nurture connections between TBK and several area churches and mosques, and sits on the community-wide Interfaith Steering Committee and the Brennan Goldman Institute Steering Committee.
Rabbi Stein is an avid tennis player, a passionate trombone player, and a beach lover. He loves baseball and has been to 12 stadiums and counting! He is married to Amy and together they are the proud parents of Eliana and Ari.
Rabbi Stein was ordained and earned a MA in Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, studying in Jerusalem and New York City. His undergraduate studies were at Cornell University, and he also completed the Jewish Leaders Program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Rabbi Stein is an alumnus of the Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship of CLAL and the Brickner Fellowship of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. He has also completed the Professional Affiliates training of the Jewish Outreach Institute.
In Rochester, Rabbi Stein is engaged with a number of community organizations. He is treasurer of the Rochester Board of Rabbis and a member of the Jewish Federation Community Relations Committee. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School, teaching classes in rabbinic literature and Jewish biblical interpretation.
Nationally, Rabbi Stein serves the Central Conference of American Rabbis as Dues Chairperson and as part of the Convention and Budget and Finance Committees. He is also a mentor for newly ordained rabbis through the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the CCAR, and he has served on camp faculty at three different Union for Reform Judaism camps.
Rabbi Stein has a commitment to social justice work and interfaith endeavors. He is a proud member of Planned Parenthood’s national Clergy Advocacy Board. In 2015, he walked in Alabama and Georgia as part of the NAACP Journey for Justice, and he has a longstanding engagement with issues of LGBTQ equality and poverty. He participated in a dialogue program and a Papal Audience at the Vatican in 2007 and has been involved in significant relationships with the Catholic, Christian, and Muslim community. He is proud to nurture connections between TBK and several area churches and mosques, and sits on the community-wide Interfaith Steering Committee and the Brennan Goldman Institute Steering Committee.
Rabbi Stein is an avid tennis player, a passionate trombone player, and a beach lover. He loves baseball and has been to 12 stadiums and counting! He is married to Amy and together they are the proud parents of Eliana and Ari.
Rabbi Elyse Wechterman
Rabbi Elyse Wechterman is the Executive Director of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association in Philadelphia. She served as the spiritual leader of Congregation Agudas Achim in Attleboro, Massachusetts from 2001 until 2014.
A graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Rabbi Wechterman brings an open and inclusive approach to teaching Jewish life and traditions. She is committed to empowering Jews and fellow travelers on their individual and unique Jewish journeys.
During her tenure at Agudas Achim, Rabbi Wechterman pursued a number of continuing education and rabbinic growth opportunities and was a member of the second cohort of START PEER (Program for Excellence and Education in the Rabbinate). She is also a graduate of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Rabbinic training program and received the Hassenfeld Award for Jewish Service from the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island for her leadership work in providing social services in the context of Jewish community.
Rabbi Wechterman holds a BA in International Relations and BS in Journalism from Boston University. She and her husband David Nerenberg have two children, Avi and Sharon.
A graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Rabbi Wechterman brings an open and inclusive approach to teaching Jewish life and traditions. She is committed to empowering Jews and fellow travelers on their individual and unique Jewish journeys.
During her tenure at Agudas Achim, Rabbi Wechterman pursued a number of continuing education and rabbinic growth opportunities and was a member of the second cohort of START PEER (Program for Excellence and Education in the Rabbinate). She is also a graduate of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Rabbinic training program and received the Hassenfeld Award for Jewish Service from the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island for her leadership work in providing social services in the context of Jewish community.
Rabbi Wechterman holds a BA in International Relations and BS in Journalism from Boston University. She and her husband David Nerenberg have two children, Avi and Sharon.
