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Our Rabbis
Rabbi Fred Guttman
Rabbi Fred Guttman has served as the rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina from 1995 to the present.
Prior to coming to Greensboro, he served as the associate rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Chesed in Jacksonville, Florida.
From 1979 to 1991, Rabbi Guttman lived in Israel and served as the rabbi and principal of Alexander Muss High School in Israel. While he was principal, the school won several prestigious awards, including the Shroder Award of the Council of Jewish Federations and the Shazar Prize from the President of the State of Israel. The school was judged by the Jewish Agency to be the number one program for Diaspora Jewish youth and has an excellent reputation throughout the Jewish educational world.
While living in Israel, Rabbi Guttman also served as a reserve soldier in a combat artillery brigade and served extensively in the administered territories.
Rabbi Guttman has been an adjunct professor at Florida Community College, Jacksonville University and Greensboro College.
He serves on the boards of the Greensboro Jewish Federation, URJ Mid-Atlantic Regional Board and has served on the board of the National Conference of Community and Justice. He was a co-chair of the Greensboro fortieth anniversary commemoration of the Woolworth sit-ins.
In Greensboro, he helped to create a cooperative Judaica High School program.
He is a member of the UJA Rabbinic Cabinet and twice has received the prestigious Rabbinic Award, first from the Jacksonville Jewish Federation in 1993 and later from the Greensboro Jewish Federation in 2001. In the Union for Reform Judaism, he has served on the Commission of Sacred Music and serves on the Commission on Social Action as the chair of the Israel subcommittee. He serves on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Council of the Union for Reform Judaism.
In addition to his Rabbinical Ordination from Hebrew Union College in 1979, he has a Masters Degree in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College and a Masters of Education from the University of North Florida. At the University of North Florida, he was selected as the Outstanding Student in the Master's Program in Educational Leadership. His undergraduate education was at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he received his B.A., Cum Laude. In 2004, he was awarded a Doctorate of Divinity from Hebrew Union College.
He loves music and plays both the guitar and keyboard. He is married to Nancy and has three children, Ilan, Maital and Yoav, of whom he is very proud.
Rabbi Andy Koren
Rabbi Andy Koren is a native of North Miami, Florida. As a college student at Tufts University, Rabbi Koren majored in International Relations and focused on Middle Eastern Studies and Israeli Foreign Policy. He was also active in Hillel on the local, regional, and national levels. Rabbi Koren has been to Israel many times since first traveling there as a student on the Alexander Muss High School in Israel program.
In 1993 Rabbi Koren received his ordination from the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. For the past 10 years, he worked primarily with the campus Jewish community, as the Director of North Carolina Hillel and for the past five years as the Campus Rabbi for the Hillel at the University of Florida. He also spent three years in Columbus, Ohio as the Program Associate for the Wexner Foundation.
In 2003, Rabbi Koren took his first congregational position as the Rabbi/Director of Religious Education for Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina where he currently lives with his wife Michal and their children Avishai & Shiri.
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