Can I Get an Amen?
A Few Choice Kind Words About The Amen Center and Its Leadership
We’re humbled and grateful for the generous words shared by those who’ve experienced our work firsthand. Below are reflections from partners, participants, and fellow travelers who’ve been part of this growing movement. Their voices speak to the heart of what we do—building courageous, connected, spiritually-rooted leaders ready to meet this moment with vision, wisdom, and purpose.
Rabbi Jenny Solomon
Beth Meyer Synagogue (Raleigh, NC)
The Amen Center’s All-Together-Now cohort has been an invaluable experience for our synagogue leadership team to explore some of the most foundational aspects of who we are (separate and together) and who we aspire to be. Rabbi Benjamin Ross and Rev. Cameron Trimble are pros. They know how synagogues work and have endless wisdom in helping us understand who we are, here and now, even as we dream into the future. These sessions have invited us as a group to remember why we are doing this work and how we can do it more skillfully. I’m walking away from the experience inspired to lead, grateful for the synergy of my team, and even more clear about next steps we can take to fulfill our mission, vision, and spiritual calling.
Rabbi Ken Chasen
Leo Baeck Temple, Los Angeles, CA
Benjamin’s classroom follows him wherever he goes. Every interpersonal encounter takes place inside it. As I watched and partnered with him over the course of his six years working at my synagogue (Leo Baeck Temple), I was often reminded of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s famous teaching: “What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but textpeople.” Rabbi Ross is a textperson who spreads the light of Torah in the most vibrant ways… sometimes via classical Jewish literature, sometimes via the creation of community, sometimes via the discipline of developing leaders who will cultivate the passion for Jewish living in others, multiplying the reach of his personal Torah.
Rabbi Dara Frimmer
Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles
The Amen Center gives me the space to think about all things I don’t normally give myself time to think about (e.g. leadership development, improving communication with and between staff, goal setting for professionals and lay leaders) AND invites two of the most important partners for me as Senior Rabbi into those conversations in real time: my Executive Director and Temple President. Setting aside the time alone is a gift; learning, reflecting, and laughing with other synagogue teams, as well as the facilitators.