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    Meet Our Rabbi

    Rabbi Steve Segar is spiritual leader of Kol HaLev, Cleveland’s Reconstructionist Jewish Community. A 1995 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Rabbi Steve originally came to Cleveland as Director of Spiritual Life at the Agnon School, a pluralistic Jewish day school. While in that position, he served as part-time rabbi at Kol HaLev, and in 2000 was hired to fill what would become the congregation’s first full time rabbinical position.

    More recently, Rabbi Steve earned a Master’s degree in Positive Organizational Development and Change from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He is involved with interfaith relations in the Cleveland area, and served on the board of Interact-Cleveland, an interfaith social group that promoted dialogue between faiths and service to less fortunate populations. He is also on the core team that represents Kol HaLev to the Greater Cleveland Congregations, a non-partisan coalition of faith communities and partner organizations in Cuyahoga County working together to build power for social justice. A frequent speaker at area churches, Rabbi Steve has served as scholar-in-residence on contemporary thought and practice for a number of organizations. He and his wife, Andy Getz, have three sons, Gabriel, Caleb and Zachary.

    Photo © 2007 Herbert Ascherman

    Rabbi Steve's High Holy Days Sermons:

    Yom Kippur Sermon 5776

    Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5776

    Jews and Life after Death - Yom Kippur 5775

    Balancing the Prophetic and the Tribal - Rosh Hashanah 5775

    A Polarity: Human Limitation and Communal Aspiration - Yom Kippur 5774

    Reconstructionism, Tradition, and the Torah - Rosh Hashanah 5774

    Common Ground - Yom Kippur 5773

    Jewish Values and the Politics of Civility - Rosh Hashanah 5773

    Go and Study  —  Yom Kippur 5772 

    The 10th Anniversary of September 11th
    and Our Deep Interdependence 
     
    —  Rosh Hashanah 5772

    Searching for God in the 21st Century  —  Yom Kippur 5771

    The New Big Picture  —  Rosh Hashanah 5771

    Building Sacred Community  —  Yom Kippur 5770

    Positivity and the High Holy Days  —  Rosh Hashanah 5770

    Their Accountability, Our Responsibility —  Yom Kippur 5769

    Change and Transition  —  Rosh Hashanah 5769

     

    Rabbi Steve's Articles from our Kol HaLev Happenings newsletter:

    October 2008

    September 2008

    June 2008

    July 2007

    June 2007

    July 2006

    October 2005

    September 2005

     

    CLICK HERE FOR RABBI STEVE'S SERMONS AND ARTICLES

     


     

    Most services and programs are currently being held online! Visit our home page for more information.

    Office: 2245 Warrensville Center Road, Suite 215 . University Heights, OH 44118 . (216) 320-1498

    Kol HaLev is affiliated with Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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