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Her most recent professional position was as the Executive Director of the newly merged St Stephen’s Human Services and House of Charity, a program meeting the needs of the Twin Cities’ homeless and hungry community through housing, outreach, shelter, health including mental health and substance use disorder services and food services. Her experience includes 13 years working within Head Start programs. She also teaches as an adjunct professor in the areas of public health and public administration. Deb holds a Doctorate in Public Administration from Hamline University and a Master’s in Public Health with a major in Health Services Administration from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She has relocated to Los Angeles to be closer to her three amazing adult children (and a daughter and son in law) and grandchildren Rumi and Enriqo the joys of her life along with a grandchild on the way.
Before his professional life at HUC, Rabbi Adam served as the Director of Congregational Learning at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas and as rabbi and Program Director at Congregation Beth Am in Palo Alto, California. His work in both of these outstanding communities, Rabbi Adam was proud to play a role focused on relationships, community building and lifelong learning. From a campaign to call every member of the synagogue on the same day, to the co-creation of new educational opportunities for K-2 families; from teen-led high holidays to leading group b’nai mitzvah in Israel, Rabbi Adam has relished in building meaningful, rich Jewish experiences for all ages. Rabbi Adam attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated with majors in Philosophy and Modern Hebrew, as well as minors in Judaic Studies and Religious Studies. After graduating he studied at the Hebrew
Union College, where he earned his Masters of Hebrew Letters, a Masters in Jewish Education and his rabbinic ordination. Rabbi Adam recently became certified in Permaculture Design — an ethics-based approach to land and esource management, from sky to soil, from bacterial to human culture – by Oregon State University and the Permaculture Institute of North America. Rabbi Adam, his wife Lauren and their two children, ages 8 and 10, live in Santa Monica. The Allenbergs like to hike in the mountains, spend long days at the beach, sing through their growing family songbook and tend to their garden of perennials, herbs, berries, flowers and baby citrus trees. Together, they are slowly and patiently reclaiming traditional food preparation techniques such as pickling, baking with wild yeasts and brewing kombucha, beer and mead.