Meet Our Rabbi, Sonya Starr Rabbi Starr is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania where she received her Ordination, as well as her MA in Hebrew Letters in 1994. She has been a consultant on the Philadelphia Board of Rabbis, and was the Program Coordinator of the Jewish Women's Studies Project at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Rabbi Starr's student pulpits included the Jewish Congregation of Fairbanks in Alaska and the Hebrew Association of the Deaf in Philadelphia. For four years Sonya was Rabbi of Beth El Synagogue in Torrington, Connecticut. Her most recent assignment before arriving at CJC was as Rabbi/Educator at the Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden, Connecticut. Rabbi Starr lives in Columbia with her family and enjoys working closely with the Synagogue and the Community.
Rabbi Sonya Starr
Associate Rabbi Bob Saks
Cantor
Jan Morrison
Executive Director
Miriam Lapping
Cantor Jan Morrison
Columbia Jewish Congregation 2009-2010 Board Members
President - Ilene Toller Vice-President - Patti Taylor
Vice-President - Charlene Levine
Vice-President - Joshua Kaufman
Treasurer - Morrie Schactman
Secretary - David Glaser
CJCS President -Susan Gnatt
Nancy Alexander, David Benton, Barry Blyveis, John Evans, Sheldon Gnatt, Ralph Gumpert, Mike Jablonover, Alan Pomerantz (past president), David Sann, Deborah Sweren, Suzanne Waller, Jill Witkin, Marvin Zelkowitz
Rabbi Starr is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania where she received her Ordination, as well as her MA in Hebrew Letters in 1994. She has been a consultant on the Philadelphia Board of Rabbis, and was the Program Coordinator of the Jewish Women's Studies Project at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Rabbi Starr's student pulpits included the Jewish Congregation of Fairbanks in Alaska and the Hebrew Association of the Deaf in Philadelphia. For four years Sonya was Rabbi of Beth El Synagogue in Torrington, Connecticut. Her most recent assignment before arriving at CJC was as Rabbi/Educator at the Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden, Connecticut. Rabbi Starr lives in Columbia with her family and enjoys working closely with the Synagogue and the Community.
