Say good-bye to Shabbat with celebratory cocktails, a Pride speaker - Rabbi Alexis Pinsky, and a brief Havdalah service in the BK parking lot.                                    

Rabbi Alexis Pinsky was ordained from the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. She is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis – the rabbinic organization for the Reform Movement. She currently serves as the Associate Rabbi and Director of Education at B’ShERT (Beth Shalom v’Emeth Reform Temple) in Brooklyn, NY.  

Rabbi Pinsky has worked extensively in the New York Jewish community as well as the greater New Orleans area. She served a year as Associate Rabbi at the historic Touro Synagogue where she served as the Musical and Liturgical Clergy in Residence. Before that, Rabbi Pinsky was the Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Gates of Prayer in Metairie, LA where along with pulpit responsibilities, she focused on outreach and engagement to young families and the 20s and 30s community.

Rabbi Pinsky is passionate about connecting others to the richness and beauty of the Jewish tradition, cultivating sacred ritual moments, music, Jewish education, both formal and informal, and working toward a more just world. She lives with her partner Jaimie and their dog MishMish on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. 

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