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Rabbi Robert A.
Nosanchuk |
Robert Nosanchuk is Senior Rabbi of Anshe
Chesed Fairmount Temple in Cleveland and he and his family live in Shaker
Heights, Ohio. Previous to his work in Cleveland, he served as Senior
Rabbi at Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation in Reston, Virginia, and as
Associate Rabbi at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in Maryland. In 2001, he
was ordained as rabbi at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of
Religion, where he earned two Master’s Degrees: Hebrew Literature (1999)
and Jewish Communal Service (1994).
In addition to his congregational and pastoral duties
in Cleveland, Rabbi Nosanchuk has been honored to be engaged in recent
months by the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department as a
visiting lecturer to classes where diplomats prepare to engage faith
communities in dialogue and peace-building. He recently led efforts for an
Interfaith Remembrance of the 10th Anniversary of September 11.
In addition, he co-conceived and participated in January 2011 in an
Interfaith Peace and Justice Initiative, in which rabbis, ministers and
imams traveled together to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Together with colleague Rabbi Joshua Caruso, Rabbi Nosanchuk spoke in June
2011 at the founding assembly of Greater Cleveland Congregations, a new
community organization of which Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple is a
founding partner, promoting activism to improve education, food
accessibility, health care, jobs & criminal justice.
In 2009, Rabbi Nosanchuk was honored in
Washingtonian Magazine as one of the Washingtonians of the Year
and in 2010 was honored as Best of Reston by Reston Interfaith
for his work in creating understanding and dialogue between the Jewish and
Muslim communities. .
Rabbi Nosanchuk is a member of the Reform movement’s
Joint Commission on Lifelong Jewish Learning, co-chairing the movement’s
Task Force on Teen Engagement. Indeed he credits his own experiences as a
teen engaged in the Reform movement as inspiring him toward Jewish
leadership, and continues to serve annually as visiting faculty to URJ
camps and as a member of the URJ Kutz Camp Committee. In his rabbinate, he
is most proud of the initiatives he has led to change teen engagement and
continuing learning after B’nai Mitzvah, including the Tamid program at
Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation, and the Hineni program at
Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple.
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Rabbi
Joshua L.
Caruso |
Rabbi Joshua L.
Caruso
has been a member of the Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple clergy team since
2002.
At Fairmount Temple, Rabbi Caruso has been involved with many social action
initiatives, including leading the synagogue’s Congregation-Based
Community Organizing (CBCO) efforts which has become
The
Greater Cleveland Congregations, an interfaith organization
working to build power for social justice across Cuyahoga County.
Rabbi Caruso is co-chair of this new organization. For a Plain Dealer
editorial about the importance of the Greater Cleveland Congregations,
click here.
He is also directs Fairmount Temple’s annual Martin
Luther King Community Day in which families gather in the spirit of Rev.
King to participate in social action projects and interfaith dialogue.
He works closely on events ranging from the Dads and Kids Campout (now
held twice a year!), Hayride Havdalahs and more. Rabbi Caruso
led this year's first Young Adult Rosh Hashanah Second Night Service and
the first pre-school service for Sukkok.
From 2007-09 he served as Director of the synagogue’s
Religious School, which provides a nurturing and stimulating Jewish
educational environment for almost 500 students. Rabbi Caruso is also
active with many groups within the temple, including the Young People’s
Congregation (YPC) which blends social and religious activities for
young people and families with young children.
In 2005, he participated in a Young Leadership
Division Trip to Israel and he serves on the Jewish Community Federation
of Cleveland’s Israel Action Committee. He leads adult, family and
interfaith education programs at Fairmount Temple and developed its
current Adult B’nai Mitzvah program.
Ordained in 1998 at Hebrew Union College - Jewish
Institute in New York, Rabbi Caruso first served four years as an
associate rabbi at Temple Beth El in Spring Valley, New York before
moving to Cleveland.
He
and his wife, Leah, have three children.
Greater Cleveland Congregations
is an interfaith
organizations working to make Greater Cleveland a better place. Check out the
website for more information, including video with Rabbi Caruso,
media coverage of the June 6 Founding Assembly
(attended by more than 250 Fairmount Temple members!!) and
some photos and how to get
involved.
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Cantor
Sarah
J.
Sager |
Cantor
Sarah J. Sager has been the Cantor of
Fairmount Temple since 1980, and is the first person in the history of this
congregation to hold the position of Cantor. She was invested by the
Hebrew Union College - School of Sacred Music in New York and was one of
the first women in the world to hold the title of Cantor. Cantor Sager is a
graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude, of Brown University and also
holds a Master's Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.
In recent years, Cantor Sager's career has taken on an additional
dimension. She has become quite sought-after as a speaker on the topic of
Judaism & Feminism, particularly as it relates to the images of women
in our tradition. She was the keynote speaker at the 1993 Biennial
Convention of the Women of Reform Judaism in San Francisco. Her address at
that time was entitled: "Sarah's Hidden Voice: Recovering and
Discovering Women's Spirituality." As a result of her charge to the
assembly, the Women of Reform Judaism voted to undertake the project of a
transformative commentary to the Torah that will include feminist
commentary, interpretations and scholarship in an effort to uncover and
recover women's voices from our tradition and enable women to interact
freely with our sacred texts in the future. The much-acclaimed, The
Torah: A Women's Commentary, was published in 2007. She receives frequent
invitations to serve as Scholar-in-Residence on this topic and in the more
traditional field of Jewish music.
Cantor Sager has been honored for her contributions to the Jewish
community and for her spiritual leadership by the State of Israel Bonds,
and the Commission for Women's Equality of the American Jewish Congress.
Cantor Sager serves on the Commission on Synagogue Music of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations. She is also involved in the creation of a
new clergy manual - through a committee of representatives from both the
Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) and the American Conference
of Cantors (ACC). She is the proud
mother of a son and daughter.
Listen to Cantor Sager now! Select a format:
Selection: Shavua Tov
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FAIRMOUNT TEMPLE STAFF MEMBERS
216-464-1330 (General Number)
216-464-5890 (Religious School)
216-464-1752 (Pre-School)
E-mails of staff members below
Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk,
Rnosanchuk@fairmounttemple.org
Rabbi Joshua Caruso,
Jcaruso@fairmounttemple.org
Cantor Sagar Sager,
Ssager@fairmounttemple.org
Steve Borstein, Executive Director,
Sborstein@fairmounttemple.org (216-464-1330)
Marla Wolf, Director of Religious School
Mwolf@fairmounttemple.org
(216-464-5890)
Staci Cohen, Assistant Director of Religious
School
Scohen@fairmounttemple.org (216-464-5890)
Pam Deutsch, Director of the Early Childhood
Center
Pdeutsch@fairmounttemple.org (215-464-1752)
Wendy Jacobson, Caring Community Coordinator,
Wjacobson@fairmounttemple.org (216-447-9542)
Joey Laidman, Religious School
Administrator/Registration
Jlaidman@fairmounttemple.org (216-464-5890)
Debbie Lazarus, Office Manager,
Dlazarus@fairmounttemple.org (216-447-9530)
Julie Manning,
Membership Coordinator,
Jmanning@fairmounttemple.org (216-447-9532)
Julie Moss, Librarian for the Arthur J. Lelyveld
Center for Jewish Learning - e-mail for information on book availability
and to put a book on hold.
Jmoss@fairmounttemple.org
(216-447-9543)
Laura Munson, Communications Director and
Bulletin.
Lmunson@fairmounttemple.org (216-447-9541)
Debbie Rossman, Early Childhood
Administrator,
Drossman@fairmounttemple.org (216-464-1752)
Julianna Senturia, Program Coordinator,
Jsenturia@fairmounttemple.org
(216-447-9533)
Howard Silver, Controller,
Hsilver@fairmounttemple.org
(216-447-9535)
Clergy Support Staff:
For Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk, contact Hedy Silber at
Hsilber@fairmounttemple.org
For Rabbi Joshua Caruso, contact Cathy Lipton at
Clipton@fairmounttemple.org
For Cantor Sarah Sager, contact Iris Greene at
Igreene@fairmounttemple.org
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