Former Religious Leadership
Read about former CBST Cantors and Rabbis and where they are now.
Rabbi Cohen became a full-time rabbi at CBST in August, 2002, three months after she was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Passionately committed to progressive and feminist Judaism, she is an activist and an advocate for full inclusion and celebration of LGBT Jews in the Conservative movement and the larger Jewish world.
Cantor Berger was the first full-time cantor of CBST. He received cantorial investiture at the Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music in May, 2007. Cantor Berger is now the cantor at Congregation Tikvat Jacob in Manhattan Beach, CA.
Rabbi Roderick Young
Rabbi Young served as Assistant Rabbi at CBST from August 1999 - July 2002, and was a Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinical Intern in 1996-97 and 1998-99. He was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1999. Rabbi Young is living in London and is Rabbi at West London Synagogue. He became the Principal Rabbi of Finchley Reform Synagogue in November 2006.
