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Shabbat on the Beach with Guest Rabbi Alexis Pinsky & Jaimie Krass
June 14 @ 6:00 pm
Shabbat on the Beach fuses summer at the beach with traditional Shabbat rituals. Warm your toes in the sand and join your community in singing, dancing, and celebrating the joys of a magical Shabbat experience.
Rabbi Alexis Pinsky
Rabbi Alexis Pinsky was ordained from the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. She is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis – the rabbinic organization for the Reform Movement.
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Rabbi Pinsky is grateful to serve the greater New York Jewish community. She has held Associate Rabbinic positions at Temple Israel of the City of New York and B’ShERT (Beth Shalom v’Emeth Reform Temple) in Brooklyn, NY and has served/taught in numerous NYC congregations and institutions.
Prior to moving back to the NY area, she completed a year as Associate Rabbi at the historic Touro Synagogue where she served as the Musical and Liturgical Clergy in Residence. Before that, Rabbi Pinsky was the Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Gates of Prayer in Metairie, LA where along with pulpit responsibilities, she focused on outreach and engagement to young families and the 20s and 30s community.
Rabbi Pinsky is passionate about connecting others to the richness and beauty of the Jewish tradition, cultivating sacred ritual moments, music, Jewish education, both formal and informal, and working toward a more just world.
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Jaimie Krass
With anti-oppressive pedagogy and a love of adventure as her modi operandi, Jaimie serves as Keshet’s Director of Youth Programs. She brings a decade of creative curriculum design experience, an innovative spirit, crisis management skills, and boundless energy to this holy work of building a more just, affirming, and celebratory world for LGBTQ+ Jewish youth.
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Prior to joining Keshet, Jaimie served as a Hillel campus professional for seven years (two at Muhlenberg College Hillel in PA, and five at Columbia/Barnard Hillel in NYC), creating and leading immersive experiences, reimagining Jewish tradition, and empowering students to seize ownership of their journeys and become leaders in their communities. She received her B.A. in political science and Jewish studies from the University of Florida, and her M.A. in experiential education and nonprofit professional leadership from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Throughout her career—and extending back to her teenage years—she has advocated for LGBTQ+ justice and inclusion, facilitating trainings at a variety of conferences, JCCs, and synagogues, and creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ Russian-speaking Jewish teens in Brooklyn, NY.
She is a dedicated crisis counselor with The Trevor Project, can recommend a good taco place in just about every neighborhood of NYC, and lives in Manhattan with her wife, Rabbi Alexis Pinsky, and their dog, MishMish.
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