Rabbi Deborah McKenzie has served as a Jewish spiritual leader and counselor for more than 20 years. She works interfaith and people of faith who seek to enhance or add a Jewish…
Sim Shalom News
Shofar Blower, Evan Kremin Joins Rabbi Steve Blane and Sim Shalom at the Bitter End
Sim Shalom Online Synagogue will hold live High Holiday services at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, New York featuring Rabbi Steve Blane and his quintet: Jack Glotman on Piano, Carol Sudhalter…
Shofar and Saxaphone Provide Awesome Sounds for the High Holidays 5779
On Monday, September 10th and Wednesday, September 19th Jews of all denominations searching for a vanguard place to celebrate the High Holidays will be offered a jazz service with vocals led by…
Rabbi Judy Ginsberg
Rabbi Judy Ginsburgh (JSLI Class #6) has just accepted a full-time position as the Rabbi at Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim in Alexandria, Louisiana. She will begin working there on July 1. Congregation Gemiluth…
Rabbi RuthE Levy
RuthE (RuthEllen) was born in Orange County, California. RuthE entered the US Air Force in which she served for 12 years at duty stations around the world. In 1982, RuthE was selected to…
Rabbi Shari Berman
Shari Joy Berman is a Special Associate Professor at the Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine in Northern Japan. She’s just begun her 11th year at the university, the past two at…
Rabbi Shoshana “Shush” Carson
Rabbi Shush is a California native, who has lived in East Tennessee for the last 24+ years. She served as a cantorial soloist for various congregations in California and Tennessee for over 30…
Sim Shalom Online Synagogue and Rabbi Steve Blane Celebrate Passover Freedom
On Friday night, March 30th Rabbi Steve Blane of Sim Shalom, the online synagogue, led a Passover seder to a sold out crowd at the Knickerbocker Bar and Grill in New York’s…
A Tree Grows in Florida as Sim Shalom Online Synagogue Plants the Seeds of Wisdom
Sim Shalom Online Synagogue and Rabbi Steve Blane held a virtual Tu B’Shevat seder in anticipation of the holiday that begins at sundown on Tuesday night, January 30th. And the tree planted…
Sim Shalom Broadcasts “Live from Winnipeg” at Installation of Two Newly Ordained JSLI Rabbis
On Saturday, November 4th Rabbi Steve Blane installed Rabbis Matthew Leibl and Anibal Mass at an installation ceremony at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Winnipeg Canada before a congregation of 500. Rabbi Alan…