Rabbi Dennis Rabbi Geoffrey DennisGeoffrey
Dennis has been the rabbi of Kol Ami since 1999, and
the congregation's first fulltime rabbi. He is deeply
involved in the community life of Denton County, serving
as a volunteer police chaplain. He is past president
of the Flower Mound/Lewisville Ministerial Alliance.
He is also Adjunct Professor of Rabbinic Literature in
the Jewish Studies program at the University of North
Texas.
Before coming to North Texas, he was the Assistant Rabbi
at Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation for three years. He
is an ordinee of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion. He has also earned undergraduate degrees in
Education and in Nursing. He was a Registered Nurse before
he entered the rabbinate, working in Cardiac Care, Long-term
Care and Hospice.
Rabbi Dennis has a deep commitment to pastoral care, interfaith
work, and adult education and he has published of a number
of articles in these fields. His most recent article, "The
Congregational Nurse: A New Ally in Making the Synagogue
a Center of Healing," appeared in 2004 in CCAR Journal.
He is blessed to be the husband of Robin, his wife of
20 years, and the father of his two sons, Avi and Micah.
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