RABBI JAIMEE SHALHEVET, joined our synagogue in 2008 after graduating from Brandeis and being ordained at the Hebrew Union College. She is active in supporting Syosset schools, co-chaired the Syosset-Woodbury Interfaith Clergy Coalition, and is a proud member of the American Jewish Advocacy Coalition of Syosset. Renowned for her bimah presence and creative teaching, Rabbi Shalhevet brings her guitar, voice, eloquence, humor, compassion, and passion for community to uplift our congregation and to ignite the holy spark that resides in each of us. She loves running into her synagogue family around Syosset and in Plainview where she and her wife, Helayne, raise their four children, Sam, Gabi, Ben, and Jake.
CANTOR STEVEN HEVENSTONE, joined us in 2023. He has a master’s in Education and received his cantorial degree from the Cantor’s Assembly. He is an active composer and arranger and plays the piano, guitar, bass guitar, trumpet, and his favorite instrument is the one unique to each of us, his voice. His compositions can be heard in synagogues throughout the US, Europe and Israel. Cantor Hevenstone is a popular teacher from nursery school to B’nei Mitzvah to adults. He invites you to always join in and raise your voice in joyous harmony! He and his wife Kathy have two adult sons, Nathan and Aaron.
Clergy Emeritus
Rabbi David A. Whiman became Rabbi Emeritus of North Shore Synagogue, Syosset New York in July 2012 after serving as Senior Rabbi since 2003. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary he served as an officer in the United States Navy. Inspired by his volunteer work as Jewish lay leader for military and civilian personnel in Athens Greece, he entered the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained in 1979. He served congregations in Houston and Boston before coming to New York.
Rabbi Whiman is acknowledged as a superb preacher and was invited to speak at Harvard’s Memorial Church, the Institute of Religion and to address the Episcopal House of Bishops.
Over the span of five decades, Rabbi Daniel Fogel z’l contributed in so many ways to the spiritual identify of North Shore Synagogue. But that is not the only contribution he has made as a spiritual leader.
Rabbi Fogel was deeply involved with supporting Soviet Jewry during the years when Jews were not allowed to emigrate. Rabbi Fogel was also a leader in the Civil Rights movement, and was among a group of rabbis arrested on June 18, 1964 in St. Augustine, Florida for sitting in an integrated group in a restaurant in response to a request by Martin Luther King, Jr
Rabbi Fogel passed away on April 5, 2020. He will be remembered for his warmth and for his ethical, moral and spritual leadership that affected not just the North Shore Synagogue community, but well beyond the synagogue walls..
The distinguished career of Rabbi Robert M. Benjamin z’l spanned more than three decades of service. He was ordained in 1966 at Hebrew College in Cincinnati. His first pulpit was in Fargo, ND. From there, he served in congregations throughout the Midwest; Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Terre Haute, IN; and Davenport, IA. Rabbi Benjamin came to LI in 1985 when he became the rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim in Old Bethpage in 1996.
Rabbi Benjamin passed away on June 20, 1999 after a courageous battle with brain cancer. He will be remembered as a beloved Rabbi, esteemed colleague and a gentle, compassionate, caring individual.
Rabbi Louis Stein was the founding rabbi of Temple Beth Elohim, Old Bethpage, N.Y. and upon the completion of forty years of service he retired and was awarded the title of Emeritus with the school wing dedicated and named in his honor.
He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Queens College, N.Y. and was awarded a Fellowship in the Department of Education while working toward his Master’s Degree. After several years of teaching in a public school he enrolled in the graduate program at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Upon completion of the five year program of studies he was ordained a rabbi.
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