Former local resident honored at The Temple in Nashville

Rabbi Shana Goldstein Mackler, daughter of Sammy Goldstein and Bill Yahner, will be honored at Shabbat evening services at The Temple, Congregation Ohabai Shalom, in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, March 28. The congregation will be celebrating her tenth year with the synagogue.

Sammy Goldstein is the executive director of Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel here in Orlando. 

Rabbi Mackler was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, in May 2004. She has been a rabbi at The Temple since June 2004. Rabbi Mackler is also a graduate of Lyman High School and the University of Florida. She is married to James E. Mackler, Esq., an attorney in Nashville, and is the mother of Hannah Leonia Mackler and Sylvie Ruth Mackler. Rabbi Mackler is also a granddaughter of the late Joy and Harold Goldstein of Miami and a great-granddaughter of the late Betty Alpert Surloff of Orlando and the late Becky Goldstein of Indian Harbor Beach, Fla.