Saturday Morning Worship Service with Special Guest Rabbi Barbara Symons

We are excited to welcome Rabbi Barbara Symons, rabbi of Temple Beth-El of City Island and the Reform Temple of Putnam Valley, for a special guest Shabbat worship service. Rabbi Symons, author of Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah, will deliver a moving sermon titled “The Prophets Are Speaking: Are We Listening?”  She will explore how the words of the prophets offer wisdom and strength to help us navigate our current moment.

About Rabbi Symons 

Barbara Symons graduated from the University of Michigan and was ordained by Hebrew Union College in 1994.  She currently serves as the rabbi of Temple Beth-El of City Island and the Reform Temple of Putnam Valley.  She is proud to be the Rabbi Emerita of Temple David Temple David in Monroeville, Pennsylvania following her 18 year tenure. She loves to pray with and learn with people of all ages as well as actively work together to repair the world.  She is thrilled to have even a small part in raising up prophetic voices through the many diverse voices included in her book Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah (CCAR Press). Barbara met her husband Rabbi Ron Symons during their first week in Jerusalem at Hebrew Union College and is daily and deeply proud of, and inspired by, him and their three children all of whom are not only committed Jews but learned, creative Jewish professionals.