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Emanuel Synagogue's Rabbi is Russell Fox, who joined us in 2003.
Rabbi Fox grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He went overseas to the Netherlands, attending school in Utrecht and later went into the health food business in Amsterdam Hearing the calling to deepen his connection with his heritage and people, he went to Israel in 1990 for a year of study at the Pardes Institute, and remained in Israel during the Gulf War. He returned to the United States in 1992 and entered rabbinic seminary at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and was ordained in 1997. Prior to coming to Oklahoma City in August of 2003, he has served in pulpits in western Pennsylvania and Miami, Florida. Throughout his work he has also been active in chaplaincy and community outreach work.
Rabbi Fox is an experienced community builder, multifaceted facilitator, and
creative entertaining speaker and storyteller. He is an innovative Jewish thinker and writer with articles published several magazines on liturgy, spirituality, and Jewish identity and community. He co-edited The 58th Century: A Jewish Renewal Anthology, published in 1996.
Russell is a teacher of Torah, Jewish mysticism, Jewish identity, and Judaism and the environment. He is committed to making the experience of Judaism exciting, deeply meaningful, and relevant.
He is married to Faith Fox, and has three children, Naomi, Molly, and Gershon.
You can e-mail Rabbi Fox in care of the synagogue office at
or see Contact Us for other ways to reach him. His weekly and monthly messages and sermons appear in the synagogue's Bulletin and are e-mailed in the EmanuMail newsletter; to sign up for that, see the Rabbi's Page.
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