Rabbi Jeffrey Clopper has been the senior rabbi and spiritual leader for Temple Beth El since 2003. Rabbi Clopper received his B.S. from Tufts University in 1989 and was ordained in 1995 at HUC-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. Following graduation, Rabbi Clopper worked at Congregation Emanu El in Houston Texas, and has also served at congregations in Piqua, Ohio, Quincy, Illinois, and Lafayette, Louisiana. He was Rabbinic Intern for the Youth Programs Department of HUC-JIR in Cincinnati, and Chaplain Intern at Jewish Hospital and Bethesda North Hospital.

Rabbi Clopper brings wisdom, passion and innovative thinking to all aspects of Temple Beth El, while honoring and preserving our sacred traditions and rituals. Leading Shabbat services, conducting Torah study, facilitating educational programs, consoling the bereaved, visiting the sick, getting personally involved with old and new congregants alike, assisting in Hebrew school activities, participating in Board and committee meetings, playing guitar and leading songs, and sharing his wisdom and talents at other Temple activities, Rabbi Clopper is a presence throughout Temple Beth El.

Rabbi Clopper is married to the former Carol Kasinoff of Dayton, Ohio. They have three children and make their home in the Huntington community.

Cantor Sandra Sherry has served as cantor of Temple Beth El since 1989. A graduate of Hebrew Union College, Cantor Sherry's passion for combining music and spirituality is evident throughout Temple Beth El. Cantor Sherry oversees and leads prayer at Shabbat and holiday services, conducts both the Temple Beth El adult and childrens' choirs, mentors and tutors students becoming bar and bat mitzvah, and is actively involved in all musical endeavors and activities (and there are a lot) at Temple Beth El. Every day is spent singing and teaching both children and adults, and sharing in the life cycle events of the Beth El congregation.

For the past ten years, Cantor Sherry has been an instrumental contributor to Temple Beth El's famed Chutzpah Repertory Company productions as originator, performer, teacher and director. Cantor Sherry sings with with the Long Island Cantor's Ensemble and has performed with the Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company in Phoenix Arizona, the American Mood machine, and summer musical theater.

Cantor Sherry's career began as a teacher in Arizona, on a Navajo Indian Reservation. Later, as a congregant at Temple Beth El of Great Neck, NY, Cantor Sherry joined the choir and so distinguished herself that they made her their music teacher, Soon after, at the urging of Cantor Barbara Horowitz (the first female graduate from Hebrew Union College), Cantor Sherry enrolled in the Cantorial program as well as the Aaron Copeland School of Music, and following her graduation, became the Cantor at Temple Beth El of Huntington.

To paraphrase Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman,"To be a Jewish leader one must love the Jewish people." Cantor Sherry shares that love with her congregation. It is clear to all who have heard her sing, who have studied with her, who have prayed with her, that Cantor Sherry loves Judaism and her congregation. We are most fortunate that she has chosen Temple Beth El as her home.