Our Mission & History
The mission of Shaare Zion Beth-El Congregation is to ensure the perpetuation of egalitarian Jewish worship and prayer, Jewish Community, education and family life within the precepts of Conservative Judaism and in the traditional role of the synagogue.
With our active clergy, we offer a dynamic blend of worship opportunities that span from the small and intimate to grand classical services incorporating a myriad of musical accompaniment. Our main sanctuary, constructed in 1931, is on the National Register of Historic Places and provides a truly awe-inspiring space in which to practice Jewish ritual life.
We offer prayers, twice daily, 365 days per year. Now, as always, Shaare Zion Beth-El Congregation is your home.
Meet Our Team

From a long rabbinic line, Swedish-born and US-raised, educated, and ordained, Rabbinical Assembly member, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana has enjoyed an international rabbinate. He held pulpits in Bolivia, Sweden, USA and Canada before becoming Congregation Beth-El’s rabbi in 2001 and now serving as the SZBE Rabbi Emeritus. A lifelong activist, Rabbi Cahana earned a Swedish Peace Prize for co-founding the Nordic Center for Inter-religious Dialogue and for his peace mission during the Bosnian War. He is also a 2012 recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal “for significant contribution to Canada”.
Since his stroke in 2011, Rabbi Cahana has devoted his free-time to writing Divrei Torah for the Amen Institute, poetry for his blog, and he’s currently working on a series, called Locked-Down Poetry, for which he received a Canada Council Arts Grant.
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Board of Directors
Susan Abramowitz- First Vice-President
Howard Schwartz- Vice President
Wendy Rapps- Vice President
Peter Yaffe- Parnas
Ken Adessky- Secretary
Jimmy April- Treasurer
Suzanne Grant- Immediate Past President
Maxine Bercovici- Immediate Past President
Paul Graif- Member at Large
Andrew Toeman- Member at Large
Mitchell Steinberg- Member at Large
Robert Joseph- Member at Large
David Budman- Past President Once Removed
Seth Dalfen- Past President Once Removed
Rosalyn Hailpern
Corey Frenkiel
Robert Steinman
Ryan Sanft
Arthur Nussbaum
Jordan Isenberg
Naomi Margolis
Linda Shohet
Jack Wiltzer
Martin Scheim
Jonathan Auerbach
Sergio Moskovitz- Associate Parnas
Neil Bernstein- Associate Parnas
Jack Shaicovitch- PPC 1
Carol Liverman- PPC 2
Arthur Sanft- PPC 3
Gary D. Shapiro- Honorary Vice President
Sun, 26 June 2022
27 Sivan 5782
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