HaMakom
P.O. Box 6777
Santa Fe, NM 87502
505.992.1905
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Rabbi Jack Shlachter
Ordained in 1995, Rabbi Jack is a passionate admirer of the rabbinic literature and has a personal Judaic library of 5,000 volumes. His humor blended with scholarly interpretations of Talmud and Torah offer the chance to laugh as one learns. Rabbi Jack has lead High Holiday services in Vienna, Austria, Beijing, China, and most recently, Warsaw, Poland. He serves as rabbi of HaMakom in Santa Fe as well as the Los Alamos Jewish Center. He is also a physicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for over thirty years with briefer stints at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. physicsrabbi@gmail.com
Hazzan Cindy Freedman
Hazzan Cindy Freedman has been serving HaMakom as Cantor since 2004. She received her cantorial ordination from ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Cindy has been a member of the Women Cantors’ Network since 2005. She is a professional singer and guitarist who thoroughly engages people in the power of prayer through music. Under Hazzan Cindy's leadership, music amplifies the essence of our rich Jewish liturgy, opening every heart at our services. Cantor Cindy is also a musical performance artist; she is available to officiate at all lifecycle events as well as performance and healing musical events. freeart611@gmail.com
Rabbi Emerita Malka Drucker
Rabbi Malka Drucker, founding rabbi and now Rabbi Emerita of HaMakom, was ordained at the Academy for Jewish Religion in 1998 and served Conservative, Reconstructionist and Reform Congregations before founding HaMakom. She now lives California, where she is continuing and expanding her wonderful work on spiritual eldering, focusing on the journey from “Age-ing to Sage-ing”.