Rabbi Arturo L. Kalfus

We welcome Arturo L. Kalfus to the Temple Beth Am clergy team.

Rabbi Kalfus was ordained in 1992 from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Jewish History and Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He participated in a program on Language, Culture and Civilization at the Sorbonne of Paris, France and performed doctoral work at Columbia University. He is also a fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem and completed professional development courses at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, Kellogg School of Management and Harvard Business School.

Prior to joining the Beth Am family in July 2010, Rabbi Kalfus served as Rabbi at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Cleveland, Ohio, where for seven years he coordinated and taught adult education, expanded outreach activities and participated in all the congregation's schools. From 2007 to 2010, Rabbi Kalfus coordinated staff and programming for the entire synagogue. He earlier served congregations in Albany and New Hyde Park, both in New York, and Teaneck, New Jersey.

Rabbi Kalfus enjoys the sun and the beach, a good piano concert, physical training, painting and watching good movies. He is tremendously enthusiastic about joining this fabulous congregation — Temple Beth Am — with its superb clergy team, staff and lay leaders.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Polish immigrants who survived the Holocaust, Rabbi Kalfus journeyed to Israel and then came to the United States in 1983.

Rabbi Kalfus is married to Phyllis Meyers, a Jewish educator and Special Educator, and they are the parents of two teenagers, Ari and Lilah.