Alan Henkin

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CCAR Placement Director; Union Rabbi for the West District. Prior to that, he served as Regional Director of the Pacific Southwest Council. From 1990 to 2000 he was the rabbi of Congregation Beth Knesset Bamidbar in Lancaster, California. During the 1980s he was rabbi for Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf in Arleta, CA.  He has taught Modern Jewish Thought, Bible and Rabbinic Literature, “the Rabbi in the Hospital” and Rabbinic Practice at the HUC-JIR, LA; ordained by HUC in Cincinnati in 1980; Ph.D. in Social Ethics from the School of Religion at the University of Southern California, where he also earned an undergraduate degree; published articles in such journals as The American Rabbi, The Jewish Spectator, The Journal of Reform Judaism, Judaism, The Reconstructionist and Reform Judaism.