Staff Profiles... Temple Beth Or is a very special place. It is a community of families who come to participate in worship, Jewish education and social and spiritual rejuvenation. It’s a center of comfort, warmth, activity and volunteerism, where you’ll always find familiar, smiling faces — from the clergy to the office staff. Rabbi Lucy H.F. Dinner  Rabbi Lucy H.F. Dinner, Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth Or since 1993, provides spiritual leadership and vision to our congregation. Along with the ritual, educational and life cycle responsibilities she undertakes in leading the congregation, Rabbi Dinner promotes ongoing congregational enrichment and involvement. Rabbi Dinner is committed to the advancement of Jewish values and ideals within the congregation and beyond. She has served on numerous boards and advisory committees locally including: the Advisory Board of the North Carolina Food Bank, the Duke Symposium for Care at the End of Life, and the Martin Luther King Observance. Nationally Rabbi Dinner is involved on the Committee to Mentor Reform Rabbis, and has served on several Union for Reform Judaism committees, and on the Board of ARZA. Rabbi Dinner earned her Masters of Arts in Hebrew Letters and Ordination from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina. She served as Associate Rabbi at Shaare Emeth Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri. Rabbi Dinner has been published in the book The Woman’s Torah Commentary, and been an author of Torah commentary for the URJ. She has been honored with induction into the YWCA’s Academy of Women, and featured in Women’s Edge magazine. Rabbi Dinner is married to Jeffrey Dinner and has two sons Joshua and Jacob. :: top of page :: Alexis Hallman- Director of Jewish Music  Lexie joined our staff in May of 2008. A native of Kansas City and graduate of the University of Kansas, she studied music and literature and majored in Political Science and English. Lexie began her career in Jewish Communal Service at The Temple, Congregation B'nai Jehudah in Overland Park, KS in 2005, serving as member of the Religious school faculty and eventually accepting a full time position as Youth Director and Children's Music Educator. Growing up in a very musical home, Lexie learned to sing and play guitar at an early age and has trained with vocal coach, Matthew Shepard, in both folk and operatic styles for the last several years. She is very proud of her KU Jayhawks and can be found every spring glued to the television for as much of March Maddness as possible. :: top of page :: |
