About Us

Congregation M'kor Hayim

About Us

Board of Directors

Holly Harper, President -- healermom@mac.com

Judith Weiser, Vice President -- jsek@cox.net

Alan Gilbert, Treasurer -- alanwgilbert@gmail.com

Marlyne Freedman, Secretary -- marlynej@aol.com

Linda Horowitz -- lhorowitz33@comcast.net

Bryan Kaplan -- bkaplan@cox.net

Darryl Landau, Secretary -- azdarryl@comcast.net

Marty Levy -- mrlphd@aol.com

Kenny Wortzel -- kwortzel@aol.com

Our Cantorial Soloist, Emily Ellentuck, is a teacher of Judaic Studies at Tucson Hebrew Academy. She has extensive experience as a cantorial soloist at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation and other congregational settings in the Tucson area. She is the winner of several awards for her vocal abilities. Her musical leadership is an important component in our Shabbat and holiday worship.

Rabbi Helen Cohn

Rabbi Helen Cohn was ordained in 1994 from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, which is the home of the Reform movement. She moved to Tucson in the summer of 2006 after twelve years at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, the largest congregation in Northern California. After serving as interim rabbi for Congregation Chaverim in Tucson she was asked to be the spiritual leader of Tucson's newest Reform congregation, M'kor Hayim.

Rabbi Helen's main areas of interest are Jewish education, spirituality, and meditation. She is a Spiritual Director and a Spiritual Director supervisor, having trained at the Mercy Center in Burlingame, California, and is a co-founder of the Tucson Center for Spiritual Direction.