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Renni Altman, Rabbi, MAHL

Associate Dean and Director of the Rabbinical Program, NY Campus
Rabbi Renni Altman is currently the Associate Dean and Director of the
Rabbinical Program on the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish
Institute of Religions. She joined the administration of the College-Institute in 2008,
having served for thirteen years as the Senior Associate Rabbi of Temple Beth-El of
Great Neck, where she was involved in all aspects of congregational life but most
especially in the areas of worship change, programming and adult education. Rabbi
Altman has also held the position of Director of Programs for Reaching the Unaffiliated
for the Union for Reform Judaism and Assistant Rabbi of Congregation Emanu El of
Houston, Texas.
Rabbi Altman has served on the Convention Program Committee of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis, as the New York Regional Coordinator for the
Women’s Rabbinic Network and as the President of the Great Neck Clergy Association.
Rabbi Altman was ordained from the New York Campus of the Hebrew Union
College – Jewish Institute of Religion in 1988, having received her MAHL in 1986. She
completed her undergraduate education at Cornell University in 1979 with a major in
Communication Arts. Rabbi Altman resides in Great Neck, NY with her husband, three
children and beloved dog.
Publications
- “To Err is Human; For Forgiveness, Bring a Sacrifice,” Living Torah, URJ Press, New York; 2005
- “Putting Quill to Parchment: The Writing Begins,” CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly, Fall, 1998
- “The Sheva Brachot Reconsidered,” CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly, Summer, 1997
- Forward to Church and Synagogue Affiliation: Theory, Research and Practice, edited by Amy L. Sales and Gary A. Tobin, Greenwood Press, Connecticut; 1995
- The Life-Cycle of Synagogue Membership: A Guide to Recruitment, Integration and Retention, UAHC Press, New York, NY; October, 1991
- “The Four Daughters,” Reconstructionist Vol. LV/No.4, Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot, Wyncote, PA; March 1990
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