From weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs to business functions and lectures, our facility is a great setting and location for your special occasion. BAS Clergy
Rabbi Mark L. Shrager
Rabbi Mark Shrager guides Congregation Bnai Abraham with the
teachings of Conservative Judaism.
Rabbi's Message:
JANUARY 2010 | FEBRUARY 2010 | MARCH 2010
Thanksgiving Day Service, 2009 (Picture above: Rabbi Mark Shrager chanting Torah, BAS Member Susie Aufrecht along with her granddaughter, Cantor Jen Cohen, who was visiting from New Jersey over the holiday.)
Bnai Abraham's own, Jennifer Cohen, graduated from H.L. Miller Cantorial School at The Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Cantor Jen Cohen is the daughter of BAS members Danny and Nancy Cohen, and presently serves as the fulltime cantor at Temple Beth Sholom in Southern New Jersey. Mazel Tov to Jen and her entire family.
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Cantor Robert Weiner (still under development)
Cantor Weiner has been BAS Cantor since taking over for Cantor Morris Seigel in the 80's. We are currently writing a biography of Cantor Weiner for BAS and it will be posted here in the next few weeks.
Director of Hillel, Jewish chaplain, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
Professional Career
Dr. Robert I. Weiner has been Professor at the Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones - Department of History at Lafayette College for over 40 years.
Ph.D., Rutgers University.
Dr. Weiner's Authored Publications:
The Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2005.
"French Jewish Images of America: The Case of Dijon," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the Annual Meeting, XXV (1998), 79-87.
"French Jews and Israel: The Jews of the Dijon," paper presented at the Association for Israel Studies Conference, June 1997.
"Perceptions of Antisemitism and Selective Responses among the Jews of Dijon," paper presented at a "New Europe" Conference, York,England, August 1996.
Lafayette College Awards:
- Five-time recipient of the Student Government Superior Teaching award.
- Dean of Studies Faculty Recognition Award, 2002.
- Student Government Faculty Adviser Award, 2002.
- Daniel Golden Alumni Recognition Award, 2002.
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Cantor Emeritus: Morris Siegel, 1943-2000
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Past Rabbi's of Bnai Abraham Synagogue:
Rabbi Jay David Sales
Notice: We mourn with profound sorrow the passing Rabbi Sales, a gifted Jewish educator at the Solomon Schechter School in Pittsburgh, and past Rabbi at Bnai Abraham Synagogue. We extend our deepest condolences to his family and to all who were touched through his rabbinate.
Rabbi Jonathan A. Schnitzer
1974-1986 Now in his twenty-first year at B'nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, Maryland.
Rabbi Harold Richter 1971-1974
1971-1974 Rabbi Harold Richter accepted post as Jewish Chaplain of Broward County, Florida
Rabbi Norton D. Shargel
1970 Rabbi Norton D. Shargel accepted call to serve in Harrison, N.Y.
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