Rabbi Allison Berlinger grew up in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. She attended an Orthodox yeshiva, Solomon Schechter Day School and graduated with her BA in Jewish Studies with a concentration in Rabbinics from the University of Judaism. Upon her graduation from the UJ Allison attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She was a student in the Rabbinical School and the Davidson School of Education. Upon completing her masters in Jewish Education Allison left the rabbinical program. She was searching for a higher level of spiritual learning. Allison found herself well versed in text skills, halacha and Hebrew yet she felt a lacking in the spiritual arena. Her search for a more spiritual Jewish experience led her to the ALEPH Rabbinic Program.
Allison studied for her smicha under the guidance of Rabbi Marcia Prager, Rabbi Marcello Bronstein, Cantor Ari Priven, Rabbi Shohama Wiener, Rabbi Anne Ebersman, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg and Dr. Diane Sharon. Her passion is working with children and providing them with an excellent and spiritually motivated Jewish Education.
Allison is currently the Principal of the Brotherhood Synagogue Religious School in Gramercy Park, NY.
