Congregation Kol Ami (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Congregation Kol Ami is a synagogue located in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States.

According to the synagogue, the building serves as a place of worship for approximately 25% of the Jewish families in Utah.

In 1973, Conservative Montefiore and Reform B'nai Israel merged to form Kol Ami.

In July 2014, a 22-year-old Salt Lake City man was convicted and sentenced to serve five years in prison for shooting out windows at the synagogue.

He attended the University of California, San Diego, where he was an active brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

While in rabbinical school, Rabbi Spector served for three years as the student rabbi of Congregation Etz Chaim in Merced, California; a member of the Chaplain Candidate Program for the United States Navy; and as a chaplain intern at Los Angeles County/USC General Hospital.

He received his AB from the University of Chicago and his Rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Rabbi Wenger has served on the boards of major organizations in the Jewish and general communities.

Rabbi Wenger has been teaching World Religions at Westminster College in Salt Lake City since 2001.

He continued graduate study at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Ethnomusicology and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University.