Rabbi and Education Director, Rabbi Alison B. Kobey

Rabbi Kobey joined us in July 2009. She comes to Or Chadash with extensive pulpit, chaplaincy and community activitism experience. She served Temple B’rith Kodesh in Rochester, NY as Associate Rabbi and Director of Life Long Jewish Learning from 2000-2009. She oversaw the TBK religious school, the Rochester Kollel, as well as participating in many other rabbinic duties, such as counseling and life cycle events. Rabbi Kobey was active in the Rochester community and served on many local and state boards. Rabbi Kobey attended Tufts University and Hebrew Union College.

Rabbi Kobey loves the strong combination of rabbinic duties with educational duties because “learning is a life long continuum. As rabbis, we provide roots for Jewish learning and then strive to build upon those foundations. There is no endpoint along the path of learning. Thus, my job helps promote Jewish learning as a life long process.” Moreover, she notes that two of the trends within American Judaism include a return to Jewish learning and a return to synagogue activity. “My job combines both pieces and then supports greater growth within Jewish spiritual life as a whole.”

Rabbi Kobey joined us in July 2009. She comes to Or Chadash with extensive pulpit, chaplaincy and community activitism experience. She served Temple B’rith Kodesh in Rochester, NY as Associate Rabbi and Director of Life Long Jewish Learning from 2000-2009. She oversaw the TBK religious school, the Rochester Kollel, as well as participating in many other rabbinic duties, such as counseling and life cycle events. Rabbi Kobey was active in the Rochester community and served on many local and state boards. Rabbi Kobey attended Tufts University and Hebrew Union College.

Rabbi Kobey loves the strong combination of rabbinic duties with educational duties because “learning is a life long continuum. As rabbis, we provide roots for Jewish learning and then strive to build upon those foundations. There is no endpoint along the path of learning. Thus, my job helps promote Jewish learning as a life long process.” Moreover, she notes that two of the trends within American Judaism include a return to Jewish learning and a return to synagogue activity. “My job combines both pieces and then supports greater growth within Jewish spiritual life as a whole.”

 Rabbi Kobey notes that one challenge of responding to the new hunger for learning is to provide entry points for people of different ages and backgrounds and involvement that fits a variety of needs. “We want to provide numerous opportunities which will reach out to all people and help them enhance their own connections to Judaism.”