Dear friends,
Beginning this summer, Temple Beth Israel will transition to “Mishkan Tefillah” as our regular Shabbat prayerbook for both Friday nights and Saturday mornings. Summertime will give us a chance to get acquainted, learn how to pray out of the new siddur, and use our adult-learning time on Saturday mornings to reflect on the theology of the prayerbook and how it speaks to us as 21st-century American Jews. Thanks to all who generously contributed toward the purchase of “Mishkan Tefillah.” If you would like to purchase copies in honor or memory of someone, please contact Jen in the Temple office. And watch for the summer schedule of worship and study!
About Audrey Korotkin
Rabbi Audrey Korotkin became the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel in July 2010, following a decade of service to Reform congregations in Piqua, Ohio; Skokie, Illinois; and St. Joseph, Missouri. She has invigorated study and prayer at TBI through thoughtful sermons, challenging Torah study and learning opportunities, and special events designed to gather us as a faith community including the annual Blessing of the Animals and monthly congregational dinners prior to Shabbat worship.
Locally, Rabbi is active in the interfaith Sixth Ward Clergy. Nationally, she is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbi's Responsa Committee as well as the Freehof Institute for Progressive Halakhah. She also chairs the Study Text team providing illuminating commentary for the next-generation Reform High Holy Day prayer book.
Rabbi Korotkin is in dissertation stage of her Ph.D. in liturgy and halakhah at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, from which she received ordination in 1999. She and her husband Don Clippinger, an award- winning journalist, live in Tyrone with their rescue dogs Marlee, Tobey, Sophie, and Artie.
