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Our Rabbis
Rabbi Greg Alexander
Rabbi Greg Alexander grew up in the Progressive movement in Johannesburg. He is a graduate of UCT and our youth movement, Netzer.
His smichah comes from Leo Baeck College in London and he brings his experience of more than 30 years in Jewish education and community building here and abroad.
With our Executive Director and Board, he focuses on all the Development work for the synagogue including education, structures, fundraising and membership. He is married to Rabbi Andi and has three children, Immanuel, Yonatan and Yasmin.
Rabbi Malcolm Matitiani
Rabbi Malcolm Matitiani grew up in the Progressive movement in Pretoria. He made international front page news when he became one of the first three rabbis to be ordained in Germany since the Shoah (Holocaust) in 2010.
He has a Masters Degree in Rabbinic Literature from UCT and his smichah is from the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam, Germany.
On our rabbinic team, he is the Convener of the Beit Din and supervises the Jews by Choice Programme. He has been the editor of our new series of prayerbooks for funeral and shivah homes. He is married to Gillian.
Rabbi Emma Gottlieb
Rabbi Emma Gottlieb is from Toronto, Canada and joined us in 2018. She received ordination from Hebrew Union College in New York in 2010 and subsequently held pulpits in small congregations in New York, Boston and Toronto. Rabbi Emma brings her infectious energy and love for Torah, music, teaching and prayer to our congregation. She hopes to inspire the women and girls in our community to own their Jewish stories and experiences, and to embrace what it means to be an empowered and educated Jewish woman.