Senior Rabbi
Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm
Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm brings a love for ongoing, serious, deep Jewish learning and spiritual growth to her role as Senior Rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation. Over the course of the last 10 years, she has served in various roles at Beth Jacob, including Rabbi-Educator and Assistant Rabbi. Prior to working at Beth Jacob, she was the rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Rock Island, IL. Rabbi Tamar received her Rabbinic Ordination and Master’s in Jewish Studies from Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Boston in 2010 and graduated from Brandeis University in 2001 with a B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology, and a certificate in Women’s Studies. During rabbinical school, she completed an internship in hospital chaplaincy and studied in Jerusalem at Hebrew Union College, Machon Pardes, the Conservative Yeshiva, Machon Schechter, as well as at the Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv. She has had fellowships with The Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education and the Mandel Teacher-Educator Institute. She has served as co-chair of the Minnesota Rabbinical Association and served on the local boards of the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition. Rabbi Tamar particularly enjoys studying Talmud and Chasidic texts, and teaching Mishnah. She lives in St. Paul, MN, with her spouse and two daughters. Together they enjoy cross-country skiing, watching women’s basketball, and eating homemade pizza.
Director of Congregational Learning
Rabbi Maayan Lev
Rabbi Maayan Lev (he/him) is a Jewish educator from Los Angeles California. An Israeli citizen and son of a Conservative rabbi, Rabbi Maayan went to Jewish day school as a child. He received smicha from the Academy for Jewish Religion California, and received a Masters in Jewish Education from Hebrew College (via its partnership with the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies). Rabbi Maayan has worked in a variety of Jewish settings, including Conservative, Reform, and pluralistic institutions. He did his rabbinic internship at Congregation Am HaYam, a Conservative synagogue in Ventura, California, where he also served as a cantorial soloist. Rabbi Maayan was also the Jewish Life and Living Coordinator at Surprise Lake Camp, the nation’s oldest running Jewish summer camp. Rabbi Maayan loves developing his own educational materials and curricula. In his spare time, he also loves writing spiels and Jewish parody songs.
Rabbi Emeritus
Morris Allen
The congregants of Beth Jacob synagogue enjoyed the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Morris J. Allen since August 1986. With Rabbi Allen’s guidance, Beth Jacob grew from a start-up congregation into a thriving community of over 350 households, receiving nine Solomon Schechter Awards from the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism for its innovative programming. […]
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