Meet Our Leadership

Chaya Lerner received smicha from ALEPH Ordination Program in Jan 2021. She is the president of the Rabbinic Pastor Association. She has a License in Social Work. She has worked with Older adults particularly elderly Holocaust survivors. Reb Chaya works as a therapist with Jewish Community Services. She was on the response team with the Surfside Collapse and she’s a grief and trauma therapist in private practice.
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Shayndel Kahn is an ordained Rabbinic Pastor, Spiritual Director and interfaith hospice chaplain. She is also a certified HeartMath coach and trainer helping people to find peace inner ease and balance amongst the chaos. She uses therapeutic music to the dying and dementia patients and also teaches music and dance therapy to dementia patients in a variety of nursing home and memory care units. She loves to dance, sing, be among the trees and be very silly!

Lisa Levine is a nationally known cantor, composer, author, poet, and recording artist. She earned a BA from UCI and received an Ordination from HUC-JIR DFSSM. Lisa is the author of “Yoga Shalom” & prayer voice of “Hebrew In Harmony”. Her latest CD “Bridge To Peace” promotes healing & peace. Reb Lisa serves as a chaplain for Jewish Social Services Agency in Montgomery County MD where she resides and Cantor Lisa serves as the Cantor of Temple Beth Israel in York, PA.
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Stacy Grove, M. Div. is an Interfaith Minister, ordained by Rabbi Joseph Gelberman z’l, and Spiritual Director providing chaplaincy, end of life, and disaster spiritual care. The ALEPH Ordination Program bestowed the honor of Ba’alat Chochmah upon her in January 2019.

Stacy weaves together her passion for experiencing the sacred in the natural world, sound healing, and indigenous wisdom practices for healing and wholeness. As a Sage-ing® wisdom circle leader and an eco-spiritual companion for those seeking deeper meaning of the sacred in the landscapes of the earth, she facilitates workshops and retreats as well as rituals and ceremonies for life transitions. Stacy offers educational programs about the 200 + year old Czech Memorial Scroll Trust Torah, entrusted to her non-profit.
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Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D. is Founding Director of the DA’AT Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training. Ordained by Reb Zalman as a Rabbinic Pastor in 1990, he is a Jewish death awareness educator, psychotherapist and spiritual director, working online and in the Philadelphia area. He has served as Adjunct Professor in Religion at LaSalle University and Temple University, and in the Aleph Ordination Program, and has published seven books on death and Judaism including, including the groundbreaking book Jewish Views of the Afterlife and the recently-published Musings with the Angel of Death: Poem of Love, Life, and Longing.
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