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RALPH BENMERGUI

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALEPH CANADA

Ralph is a certified Spiritual Director having taken the three year Hashpa’ah (Spiritual Direction) program through ALEPH AOP. Born in Morocco, and raised in Toronto Ralph currently lives in Hamilton Ontario.With a varied career as an award-winning broadcaster, Spiritual. Director and author, Ralph has also served as an advisor to Party Leaders, Cabinet Ministers and a College President. Passionate about Jewish Renewal and excited to raise awareness for, and the dissemination of Renewal and the spiritual innovation that so many are yearning for, Ralph is ready to dive deep into conversations and mine the wisdom of Renewal leaders in Canada.

 

RAbbi Sherril Gilbert
FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, 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)

  • 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)


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

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Contact Reb Daniel: hornbyrav@gmail.com


BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

KEVIN MCINTYRE

JOSHUA ALI

DEVORAH LESK

RABBI JEREMY PARNES

RABBI AARON ROTENBERG

RABBI ARIK LABOWITZ