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Rabbi Jeffrey Gale was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Upon graduation from University
City High School, he attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He
majored in Political Science
and spent his junior year at the European Study Centre in Luxembourg.
Upon graduating Cum Laude in 1975, he moved to London, England where he began his
rabbinical studies at Leo Baeck College. During the give
year rabbinical program, he also studied at Machon Pardes and Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
After ordination, Rabbi Gale served the Southend and District Reform
Synagogue and the Settlement Synagogue. While in England, he served
on the reform movement's music committee and on the Soviet Jewry
Committee. His visits to the Soviet Union in 1981 and 1983 to visit
refuseniks were highlights of his rabbinate in London.
Rabbi Gale returned to North America in 1984. For the next three years,
he served Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, Michigan and the Jewish inmates at
the State Prison of Southern Michigan. While in Jackson, he was an
active member of the Kiwanis Club.
In the summer of 1988, Rabbi Gale moved to Winnipeg, Canada. Shortly after, he
met his wife, Dr. Tsiporah Shore, and they were married in 1990. From
1988-1998, he served Temple Shalom, served several term positions at the
local Jewish High School,
and made occasional visits to Temple Beth Tikvah in Regina,
Saskatchewan. In Winnipeg, Rabbi Gale was involved in numerous communal
activities. Most notable were: Chaplaincy Committee of Jewish Child and Family Services,
the Canadian Commission on Jewish Continuity, the Outreach Committee for
Special needs Congregants, the Council of Winnipeg Rabbis, of which he was
the President for two years, and the Jewish Community Council. Rabbi
Gale arrived in Wantagh,
New York in July, 1998. He served as the Rabbi of The Suburban
Temple for the next eleven years. He was an active member of the
Wantagh Clergy Council and served as its President for four years. He
was honored in 1999 by the Nassau County Legislature for his work on
interfaith relations throughout this area and Canada. He was also honored by the
Council for American Islamic Relations. He was a member of the board of
the Canavan Foundation, an organization which strives to prevent this Jewish
genetic disease through education, research, and testing. Rabbi Gale
has also continued to enjoy his interaction with children and young adults by
serving on the faculty at Eisner and Crane Lake camps each year.
Rabbi Gale's wife, a hematologist and oncologist, is the Associate Director
of the Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Program of New York Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He has two children, Leanne, age
17 and Joshua, age 14. Leanne graduated from Solomon Schechter High
School in Glen Cove, New
York. She is currently a counselor at Eisner Camp and will
be attending the University of Pennsylvania in the
fall. Joshua will enter the Solomon Schechter High School in the
fall. His greatest passions are playing basketball and watching
baseball games at Yankee Stadium.
Contact Rabbi Gale via email at: rabbi@hebrewtabernacle.org
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