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Allison Peiser's Bio

Rabbi Allison Peiser has served as Temple Educator at Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, Massachusetts, since 2019. Previously, she was the education director at Temple Beth Shalom in Melrose, Massachusetts, and campus director at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Rabbi Peiser started the path to the rabbinate as a junior in high school and EIE-NFTY semester in Israel participant. She experienced Judaism as a lived religion with a complicated history that could be observed in diverse ways.

Rabbi Peiser majored in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Sociology at Brandeis University. She spent a year at the University of Haifa, studied at Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and attended the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. Rabbi Peiser’s goal is for every Jewish person to discover a meaningful Jewish identity and a sense of belonging to the Jewish people.

Sat, July 5 2025 9 Tammuz 5785