Rabbi Bill Hamilton | Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman | Rabbi Rachel Silverman
Rabbi William Hamilton
I am eager to meet and get to know you. I am more than happy to come visit you, to meet for coffee or to visit together at KI. Simply contact my assistant, Jenny Wolfson to schedule an appointment for a mutually convenient time. Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Rabbi William G. Hamilton has served as rabbi of Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline, MA since 1995. Following his ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he served as rabbi of Temple Beth Abraham in Canton, MA from 1990-95.
President of the New England Rabbinical Assembly
Chaplain of Massachusetts State Police
Chairman: Holocaust Remembrance Committee of Greater Boston; Religion Task Force of Boston Coalition; United Way’s Faith in Action Committee.
Executive Committee: Anti-Defamation League; Jewish Community Relations Council; Harvard University’s Board of Ministry; United Way’s Community Impact Committee; Rabbinical Assembly of America.
Trustee: Boston Justice Ministries; Massachusetts Chaplaincy Council; St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center; David Project (Israel Advocacy); Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces; Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston, Chancellor’s Cabinet, Board of Ministry of Harvard University.
Recipient of Jewish Federation’s (CJP) Rabbinic Leadership Award 2001; Recipient of Safe Havens (domestic violence prevention) Vision Award 2000; Honored by State of Israel Bonds 1995.
Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman
Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman has been serving the KI community as Assistant Rabbi since 2010, following ordination from the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College. Rabbi Emma grew up in St. Paul, MN and studied history of science as an undergraduate at Harvard. She has worked in Jewish communities in Israel, the Former Soviet Union, and the rural South. Rabbi Emma is an alum of the Jewish Funds for Justice Selah Leadership Program. She lives in Brookline with her husband, Benj Kamm, where she can often be spotted on her bicycle.
Rabbi Rachel Silverman
Rabbi Rachel Silverman is the Director of Congregational Learning at Congregation Kehillath Israel. 
Formerly, she was the Associate Director of Prozdor and Director of Makor, in the secondary education department of Hebrew College. Rabbi Rachel holds a BA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, a master’s degree in Jewish Education from the Davidson School, and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 2009-10, she had the distinct honor of being selected as a Legacy Heritage Rabbinic Fellow, serving as a rabbi to Temple Adath Sharon, in Sharon, MA. Over the years, Rabbi Rachel’s focus has remained experiential education and community building. To that end, she served as Hillel president at Brandeis University, spent 5+ summers working on the senior leadership team of Camp Ramah in New England, interned in the office of Experiential Education at Gann Academy, and currently serves on the leadership team of KICKS – an erev-Shabbat community here at KI.
Rabbi Rachel is, perhaps, most famous for her creativity, which led to the creation of the “Real Men Marry Rabbis” T-shirt, of which hundreds have sold worldwide. Additionally, she was recently selected for the PresenTense Fellowship for the creation of Homegrown Judaica, an online art community.
