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Meet Your Senior Rabbi Search Committee

Aug 07, 2026 / 24 Av, 5786

The Senior Rabbi Search Committee members have been chosen! This is the group that will review applications from leading candidates, conduct interviews and recommend a final candidate to the Leadership Council and Board of Trustees. According to Temple’s bylaws, both the Board of Trustees and the Leadership Council must approve the selection and hiring of the new senior rabbi.

The members of the search committee reflect a broad scope of Temple and represent every age and stage, various affinity groups and experience in Temple governance, including:

  • Current Board and Leadership Council members
  • Past Board members
  • Congregants with deep intergenerational roots
  • Significant concentration of youngest Temple members, both single and with families, and Center for Jewish Learning families as well as a teen representative
  • Leaders in the greater Dallas Jewish community
  • Civic/business leaders in the Dallas community
  • Leaders whose experience at Temple and beyond reflects commitment to our core values (Social Justice, Worship, Learning, Israel, Community)
  • Leaders across age demographics

Also, as part of the search process, candidates invited to visit Temple will meet with our past presidents and other cohorts, offering opportunities for our community to share additional input with the search committee during their deliberations.

“We are confident this extraordinary group of Temple members will lead us to the right senior rabbi for Temple,” says Temple President Sara Albert. “Through the work that has already been done by the Sharing Our Strengths project and the work that the search committee will be doing in the coming months, Temple is poised for a successful search.”

Scott McCartney and Julie Weinberg, Co-Chairs
Scott is a past president and past co-chair of TE150. He has co-led searches for Cantor Vicky Glikin and Cantor Margo Wagner. He is currently president of the Temple Emanu-El Foundation.

Julie chairs the Leadership Council, serves on the Board of Trustees, and is a director on the Temple Emanu-El Foundation. She served as social justice chair for TE150 and co-led the search committee that ultimately chose Rabbi Amy Rossel as religious school director.

Names of the committee members are below, with the Core Planning Team names in bold.
Sara Albert
Peter Brodsky
Yuh Min Chook
Nina Cortell
Warren “Chip” Fagadau
Greg Gerstenhaber
Andrew Gilbert
Risa Gross
Alexandra Horn
Ryan Kassanoff
Andrew Kaufman
Peggy Kaufman
Mark Kleinman
Madeleine Kline
Mark Masinter
Chase Sandler
Logan Sherman
Michelle Whitman
Peggy Zilbermann

Ex-officio: Meredith J. Fried Fedyk, Executive Director