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The highlight of summer: Shabbat on the beach!

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Signing a Ketubah in the age of COVID

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Lobbying on Capitol Hill with our Confirmation students

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Sharing joy with bride and groom

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Introducing our littlest learners to the joy sof Torah!

Teshuvah Class One

Students engage in discussion

Installation

Rejoicing in song and prayer as we installed Cantor Richard Cohn as Director of the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music

Riverway Suds

Brewing Beer with the Riverway Project (20s/30s community) at Temple Israel in Boston. The study session afterward on beer in the Talmud was almost as fun to prepare as the beer!

MiTY Green

Temple Micah (DC) teens at a regional NFTY event. What a coincidence we were so well-coordinated that day!

Fairmount Temple

Before Confirmation with the clergy team of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (Beachwood, OH)

Wedding Blessing

Singing a wedding Blessing for my classmates Ari and Rachel.

Graduation

Celebrating a joyful milestone with President Aaron Panken z"l and Dean Shirley Idelson of HUC-JIR

Lab/Shul's "SlowDownTown" in Lower Manhattan. What a privilege to have the freedom to sing in shabbat while gazing at the statue of liberty across the harbor!

Chuppah

Singing the seven blessings at the wedding of my dear friends Zoe and Marc.

8th Grade RS

My 8th graders hold their "JQ" (Jewish Quotient) charts, a reflective exercise that connects formative Jewish memories with sacred text

TOFN

The Other Friday Night - an intimate, musical shabbat experience for young adults. (Brooklyn Heights Synagogue)

MiTY, Temple Micah's Youth Group, after we led services for the congregation. (Washington, DC)

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My classmates are incredible! We all showed our affinity for the force on our "May the Fourth" graduation. I'm the one with the lightsaber.

Shabbat Shira

The all-camp Shabbat song session at OSRUI (Oconomowoc, WI). Shabbat singing at camp is magical and mythic. This is where I fell in love with Judaism.

NFTY in Israel

Two brave NFTY participants at a site in Jerusalem had no clue what silly educational game I was about to volunteer them for!

Mevasseret Tzion

I volunteered at an Ethiopian immigrant absorption center during my first year of HUC. This is Bakalo, one of the children I cared for during my visits.

Dan and Danny

Before collaborating with my teacher and friend Dan Nichols

My family on a visit to Washington, D.C.

Spending time with kids of all kinds at the Chicago Jewish Festival

Making music with clergy leaders of the Boston community for a Temple Israel singing event

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