Temple Beth El

10/12/2023

09/13/2023

Let’s Welcome Cantor David Green

We are pleased to announce and welcome our new Spiritual Leader, Cantor David Green. He will be conducting our services during Rosh Ha Shana and Yom Kippur followed by once-a-month visits to lead Shabbat services through May. He is a compassionate person who told us: “The best part of being a cantor is being part of people’s lives for both happy and sad occasions.”
Cantor David Green has served as a cantor since 1977 in Reform and Conservative synagogues. Since 1995, he has been the Cantor of Congregation Beth Or in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania. He retired after 27 years of service in 2022 from Beth Or and continues as Cantor Emeritus. Over his 45-year career, he has served as Religious School Director, Temple Administrator, Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutor, Adult Education instructor and Pastoral Counselor. Cantor Green has experience as an adjunct professor at Manchester Community College, Moravian Seminary and Gratz College, teaching courses in Non-Profit Management and Pastoral Care. He is currently an adjunct professor at Holy Family University in Philadelphia teaching courses in Hebrew Scriptures and World Religions.

Cantor Green earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Maryland. He has four Masters Degrees in the fields of Social Work from the University of Maryland, Jewish Studies from Baltimore Hebrew College, Jewish Education from Gratz College and History from Lehigh University. He completed his Certificate of Jewish Music at Gratz College. He has his Doctorate of Ministry in Congregational Studies at Hartford Seminary. Cantor Green’s dissertation topic was: “An Alternative Jewish Educational Model in Place of Supplemental Jewish Education.” He is a member of the Guild of Temple Musicians and The National Association of Jewish Chaplains.

Cantor Green is able to teach adult education for us on a variety of subjects: Torah study, Kabbalah, Comparative Religion (Judaism and Christianity) to name a few.

David is married to Lori, who has been the Director of Jewish Education for Temple Sholom in Broomall, Pennsylvania since 1997. They have two adult children, Michael and his wife Paola, who live in California, and Adina, who lives in the Philadelphia area. David and Lori live in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia with their dog, Lucy.

03/23/2023

Learn about The Brooklyn Dodgers' relationship to the Jewish Community and Marvin Miller, a transformative figure in baseball history!

08/09/2021

Temple Beth El continues to be an active community with some new exciting things happening. For now our page will be updated sporadically as we search for someone to act as administrator. In the meantime you can follow us on the internet by checking out our website at www.templebetheloneonta.org. You can reach us by writing to Temple Beth El, P O Box 383, Oneonta, NY 13820 or calling the synagogue and leaving a message at 607-432-5522. Someone will reply as quickly as possible.

Offering Conservative Jewish worship since 1935

05/07/2021

It certainly has been a long year of isolation and online community events. As we start to plan having in person events again at Temple Beth El we are beginning to feel uplifted and hopeful. We wish you all Shabbat Shalom on this beautiful spring Friday and hope you and your loved ones have remained safe and well throughout this trying time.

01/27/2021

Yom HaShoah

Learn more at http://wjc.org/werememberThe World Jewish Congress launched the Campaign five years ago with the goal of ensuring that the lessons ...

06/05/2020

Temple Beth El joins with The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York who is appalled and angered by the death of George Floyd at the hands of officers in the Minneapolis Police Department. Our sorrow is further compounded by the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, another act of ugly and violent racism. 56 years after the historic signing of the Civil Rights Act, hopes for equal rights for Blacks and other communities of color have been dashed again by blatant acts of bigotry and bloodshed.

We stand in partnership with our sisters and brothers in the Black community, and in all communities of color, as we collectively strive to stamp out racism and prejudice in all of its forms from our society. We in the Jewish community know all too painfully the end result of unchecked hatred.

In that spirit, we commit ourselves to the Biblical call of “Justice, justice shall [we] pursue,” and the imperative of achieving a peaceful, just and equal society for all.

Cheryl Fishbein, President, JCRCNY
Michael S. Miller, Executive Vice President and CEO, JCRCNY
Stephanie Bauer, President, Temple Beth El
Rabbi and Cantor George Hirschfeld

04/21/2020

Click the picture for Holocaust Memorial for the Jewish Federation of Philadelphia Sand Art by Ilana Yahav

To draw in sand the most horrific period in Jewish history is a privilege mixed with great pain. I stand over my table of sand with trembling hands, my heart...

04/20/2020

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” Elie Wiesel