In 2024-2025, Tikkun v’Or adopted a spiritual leadership model composed of our “mosaic of spiritual leadership.” Embracing the amazing talents within our congregation, the majority of our Shabbat and holiday services will be led by members Michael Margolin, Rabbi Lenore Bohm, Lauren Korfine, and Faith Rogow.
Michael Margolin
Michael Margolin is Tikkun v’Or’s BMitzvah Coordinator and one of our Service Leaders. Click here for more information about Michael.
Lauren Korfine
Lauren Korfine is grateful to live and love here in beautiful Ithaca, co-creating Jewish community in song, prayer, social action, silence, and learning, together with this TvO congregation that has been so precious to her these last 15 years. A Hebrew school dropout at 8 years old, she stumbled accidentally into leading music and services, which has brought great meaning to her life and deepened her Jewish identity. In her spare time, she teaches courses on gender, psychology, and mental health at Cornell, and she worked as a birth doula for many years. Lauren finds great joy in connection of all sorts – with people, Earth, animals, plants, stories, ideas, and spirit. She and her partner, Mark, have three grown children, an anxiety-ridden but adorable dog, and a 20-year-old, 3-legged, deaf cat. She is humbled and so very excited to be part of the amazing spiritual leadership team this year.
Rabbi Lenore Bohm
Rabbi Lenore Bohm moved to Ithaca in July 2023, to live closer to her husband David’s daughters and their families. For most of the prior 42 years, Lenore lived in San Diego and served as a rabbi in congregational and nonprofit settings. She is gratified to be part of the first generation of women rabbis.
Lenore loves teaching Torah in all its forms. In 2022, her book Torah Tutor was published. She has four adult children (and two bonus daughters, Miranda and Rachel), and 10 grandchildren.
Faith Rogow
Most people at Tikkun V’Or know Faith Rogow as an occasional Shabbat service leader and the person who does a unique chanting interpretation of the Haftarah on Yom Kippur. A longtime activist in Reform, Progressive, Feminist, and LGBTQ Jewish communities, Dr. Rogow was a camp songleader, educator, and the composer of “As We Bless,” which has been used in spiritual communities around the world and is included in the Reconstructionist movement’s siddur. She is also a Ph.D. with a specialty in Jewish and Women’s history and has led Jewish rituals in formal and informal congregations and gatherings for more than forty years.