Staff
Dr. Katie Light Soloway, our Executive Director, has a Ph.D. in Sociology from BU and a Masters in Jewish Professional Leadership from the Hornstein Program at Brandeis. Katie has lived in Cambridge since 2006. She is married to Ben and their kids are Simon, Ella, and Nessa.
Rabbi David Roth serves as the Rabbinic Educator at the Tremont Street Shul, where he leads a twice-monthly Talmud class following our Hashkama (Orthodox) Minyan, a weekly Hebrew class, and other study opportunities; all are open to everyone. David is a Hoosier by birth and education, having studied at Indiana University. He studied Torah in Israel for several years, in particular at Pardes, and was ordained in Jerusalem in 2008. David enjoys teaching every genre of Torah to teens, adults, and rabbinical students. In addition to studying, teaching, and discussing Torah, David enjoys live music (all the way from the Grateful Dead to Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents) and playing pool. David also serves as halakhic advisor to Minyan Tehillah and as rabbinic advisor to the local eruv. He and his wife, Jessi Abrahams, live in Cambridge.
Josh Gensler Steinberg, our Administrative Director Emeritus, has been a longtime member of Tremont Street and came on board in 2016 as our administrator. Josh earned a BA in religion and Judaic Studies from Dickinson College, a Master of Jewish Education from Hebrew College, and a Certificate of Advanced Jewish Studies from the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Prior to joining the staff of Tremont Street, he taught Jewish Studies to the middle school age group in day school and after-school settings. Josh lives in Somerville with his wife, Rabbi Marcie Kamerow and their daughter.
Inna Pasternak, our Operations and Communications Coordinator, moved to the Boston area in 2005 for graduate school. She started coming to TBS regularly in 2019, and first met her wife Sarah at our Shabbat Mincha services. Her hobbies include cooking spicy vegetables, traveling to the balkans, and text study with friends. You can reach her by emailing office@tremontstreetshul.org.