Rabbi Dawn Rose comes to Temple Emanuel of the Merrimack Valley with years of experience in many facets of the rabbinate and Jewish education. A PhD in Jewish Philosophy, she taught theology and ethics at both the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. As the Director of RRC’s Center for Jewish Ethics, Rabbi Rose authored many articles, book chapters, and essays, and is a widely recognized lecturer and facilitator. A summa cum laude graduate of U.C. Berkeley in English, she has pioneered ways to read and teach Jewish women’s literature as expressions of mature Jewish theologies.
As a pulpit rabbi, Rabbi Rose has served in city, suburb, and country towns large and small. In every setting, what she holds most important are the quality of relationships and the humanness of Judaism. With a background in voice, she shares TEMV’s love of music and song in lively worship. A seasoned writer, she excels at sermons, short stories, as well as story telling. Her other major areas of interest and expertise include interfaith relations with Christians and Muslims, interfaith marriage, mysticism, havurah Judaism, gender equity, GLBT issues, the environment, and social justice.
Rabbi Rose's background in Hebrew school education is extensive, and she also serves as Principal of our Religious School. She especially loves kids and very much enjoys working (and just hanging out) with children of all ages. With her partner, she has two daughters of her own, and is thus intimately aware of the challenges of parenting, and the struggle to raise true menches—kind and well-balanced children—in today’s complex world.
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Jonathan Guss is a native of New York City, where he began singing in synagogues professionally at the age of sixteen. In subsequent years in the New York Jewish music scene, he became acquainted with traditional Ashkenazi Chazanut, the Spanish/Portuguese Amsterdam style, and Yiddish song, as well as modern Jewish compositions. His first cantorial experiences were at the West End Temple in Queens and Temple Beth Elohim on Long Island. For twenty-five years, he served as Cantor for the High Holy Days at Temple Beth Shalom in Toms River, New Jersey. During that time, he began composing music for the High Holy Days liturgy, and looks forward to sharing some of those compositions with Temple Emanuel.
His main career, however, has been on the stage, as a member of the New York City Opera for seventeen years before an engagement in Phantom of the Opera brought him to Hamburg, Germany, where he continues to reside with his wife, Anna. He has also toured internationally with The Ensemble for Early Music, and has been involved in the theater scene in Hamburg as an actor, voice-over artist, and director. His film credits include Paul Mazursky’s Scenes from a Mall, where he appears in the Barber Shop Quartet. He is currently on the faculty of the Stage School Hamburg. His daughter and her husband, both archaeologists, live in Munich.
“Temple Emanuel impresses me as a shul where I know I will feel very much at home. I look forward to what I hope will be a long association with Rabbi Rose and all the members of the congregation.”
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