RAbbi Sherril Gilbert
CHAIR, Aleph Canada

• Rabbinic ordination: Mesifta Adas Wolkowisk, Queens, NY (2017)

• Spiritual Director ordination: ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal (2012)

• Rabbinic Chaplain ordination: ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal (2009)

• Davennen Leadership Training Institute (DLTI 2002)

• M.A., Human Systems Intervention (Concordia University)

• B.A., Applied Social Science (Concordia University)

• Spertus Institute, Certificate in Jewish Leadership, Chicago (2023)

• Former Rabbi Educator, Congregation Dorshei Emet, Montreal’s Reconstructionist Congregation

• Co-spiritual leader and co-founder (with Rabbi Schachar Orenstein), LevShul (Montreal, QC)

• Spiritual leader and founder, P’nai Or Montreal Community Shul (Montreal, QC)

• Spiritual leader and founder, Mishkan HaLev, St. John’s, NL (2005-2011)

• Community rabbi with 21+ years of religious, cultural and spiritual community leadership experience

• Social scientist with 30+ years experience as an adult educator, facilitator, trainer, and consultant to congregations, organizations and communities

• Spiritual director in private practice

• Member, Montreal Board of Rabbis

• Past-president, Christian Jewish Dialogue of Montreal (2019 - 2023)

• Board member, OHALAH Association of Rabbis and Cantors for Jewish Renewal (2019 - present)

• Va’ad Member, Co-Director and Director of Studies, Rabbinic Pastor Program, ALEPH Ordination Program, ALEPH (2023)

• Lecturer and Content Specialist in Special Care Counseling, Champlain College, 2012 - present (St. Lambert, Quebec)

• Passport to Jewish Life Fellow, Federation CJA, Montreal QC (2020-2023)

• Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator (2023)

Contact Reb Sherril: director@alephcanada.ca

RABBI schachar orenstein
TREASURER, ALEPH CANADA
DIRECTOR, INTEGRAL HALACHAH INSTITUTE

• Founded Lev Shul with Rabbi Sherril in 2022

• Served congregations in Vancouver and Montreal, including two of Montreal’s largest and oldest communities, Congregation Shaar Hashomayim and the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal

• Received two Orthodox rabbinic ordinations from Yeshivat Mercaz Hatalmud & Yeshivat Noam Hatorah

• BSc and MA (Jewish Studies) from McGill University

• Created Pasook Picker — visual Psalms/Tehillim

• Founded Teva Quebec, Quebec’s first Jewish Environmental Organization

• Sang and played guitar on his popular Hebrew-French Music CD for children “Bonjour Mes Amis: Chansons juives pour les jeunes”

• Wrote The Jewish Book of If: Questions for the Jewish Game of Life

• Jewish Mindfulness Leadership Training Certificate

• Yoga teaching certificates (hatha, yin, restorative and laughter)

• Born in Ramat Gan, Israel, raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, & now lives on the bank of the St. Lawrence River in Lasalle, Quebec.

Contact Reb Schachar: execdirector@alephcanada.ca

RABBI ANDREA D. LOBEL

VICE-CHAIR, ALEPH CANADA

• Rabbinic ordination: Mesifta Adas Wolkowisk, Queens, NY (2014)

• Ph.D., Religion (Rabbinic Literature; Late Antique Judaism; Religion and Science), Concordia University, Montreal, QC (2015)

• M.A., Religious Studies (Hebrew Bible; hermeneutics; Ancient Near East) (2004)

• Board Member, ALEPH Canada: Alliance for Jewish Renewal in Canada (2017-present)

• Co-Editor, Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People (2022, Ben Yehuda Press)

• Rabbinic member of OHALAH (a trans-denominational association of rabbis, cantors and students)

• University lecturer in Religion and Humanities: Tanakh and text-interpretation; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; Interpretations of Religion; Big Questions in Religious Studies; Varieties of Religious Experience; Astronomy in the Ancient Near East (2006 - present)

• Faculty/Lecturer, ALEPH Ordination Program

• Research Affiliate, Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies

• Jewish community/adult education lecturer: Limmud, congregational

• Instructor, Montreal Jewish Community Lay Chaplaincy Training Program

• Board Member, Canadian Society for Jewish Studies (2015-16)

• Scholar-in-Residence, OneShul (2016-19)

• Rabbinic Mentor, Darshan Yeshiva

• Spiritual counselling and coaching in private practice

• Mindfulness Certification for Jewish Communal Professionals, Institute for Jewish Spirituality (2024)

• Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator/pre-marital preparation and marriage enrichment (2024)

• Former Montrealer, and now lives in Ottawa, ON

  Contact Reb Andrea: codirector@alephcanada.ca

RAbbi Daniel Siegel
Rabbinic Director, Aleph canada
Founding Director, Integral Halachah Institute

• Director of Spiritual Resources for ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal

• First person to receive semicha/rabbinic ordination (1974) from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as rabbi and colleague

• Received an additional level of ordination (2003) as a Dayan/Adjudicator from Reb Zalman

• BA from Rutgers University, MA from Temple University

• Father of three sons, grandfather to two girls

• Currently lives on Hornby Island, British Columbia, serving as president of the Hornby Island Residents and Ratepayers Association and past chair of the Hornby Island Community Economic Enhancement Corporation

• Tends a garden

For more on Reb Daniel, click here.

Contact Reb Daniel: admin@alephcanada.ca

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

KEVIN MCINTYRE

JOSHUA ALI

DEVORAH LESK

RABBI ILANA KRIEGER LAPIDES