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Local Happenings from page 4 musician in the Jewish music scene. Abbie is a fifth-year
student at the Cantors Assembly and will be ordained in May
Temple Judea Welcomes 2021. An Iowa native, she earned a master of education from
S.B. University in St. Louis and continued her academics
New Clergy at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, where she studied
Hebrew and Jewish texts in Jerusalem.
Temple Judea is Rabbi Feivel Strauss served as the senior educator at
delighted to announce Temple Israel in Memphis. He has also served as a rabbi and
that Cantorial Soloist the senior educator of Hillel at The Ohio State University and
Abbie Strauss and as director of Jewish life at Emery Weiner school in Houston.
Rabbi Feivel Strauss He has an MA from Bar Ilan University in Israel and was
are now full-time cantor ordained by the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem in
and associate rabbi, 2011. Rabbi Feivel is a Boca Raton native. He moved to
respectively. Israel after high school, served in the IDF, and remained in Rabbi Alon Levkovitz from Temple Beth Am, Father Don
For the past five Israel 15 years before returning to the States. He is fluent in Finney from St. Peter Catholic Church, and Dr. Kevin Young
years, Abbie served as Hebrew and has played guitar for 20+ years. from JupiterFIRST Church. Photo credit: Jackie Alberts from
the cantorial soloist of Standing Room Inc.
Temple Israel, a large Temple Beth Am,
Reform congregation announced a gratitude initiative asking congregants to donate
in Memphis. Abbie has JupiterFIRST Church, and St. money to be used to thank the healthcare workers of Jupiter
more than a decade Peter Catholic Church Thank Medical Center. Those donations, totaling over $30,000, were
of experience as a used to purchase food gift cards for those on the frontlines of
professional musician. Medical Community the pandemic as a show of gratitude and as a way to support
Classically trained in local restaurant workers. Thanks to the additional generous
vocals, she is a singer/ The clergy and musical leaders of Temple Beth Am, support of the managers and owners at local restaurants, the
songwriter with a JupiterFIRST Church, and St. Peter Catholic Church worked $30,000 was used to buy over $36,000 worth of gift cards.
background in piano, together to host an online evening of prayer. After delivering The three lead clergy delivered over 1,300 gift cards
guitar, and saxophone. She has sung at Carnegie Hall and their sermons, Temple Beth Am’s Rabbi Alon Levkovitz, to the Jupiter Medical Center Foundation, which then
performed at Grizzlies NBA games! She is the founder of JupiterFIRST Church Senior Minister Dr. Kevin Young, and
The Institute of Jewish Rock and a familiar and sought-after St. Peter Catholic Church Pastor Reverend Donald T. Finney Local Happenings on page 6

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