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![]() The highlight of summer: Shabbat on the beach! | ![]() Signing a Ketubah in the age of COVID | ![]() Lobbying on Capitol Hill with our Confirmation students |
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![]() Sharing joy with bride and groom | ![]() Introducing our littlest learners to the joy sof Torah! | ![]() Students engage in discussion |
![]() Rejoicing in song and prayer as we installed Cantor Richard Cohn as Director of the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music | ![]() 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! | ![]() Temple Micah (DC) teens at a regional NFTY event. What a coincidence we were so well-coordinated that day! |
![]() Before Confirmation with the clergy team of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (Beachwood, OH) | ![]() Singing a wedding Blessing for my classmates Ari and Rachel. | ![]() 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! | ![]() Singing the seven blessings at the wedding of my dear friends Zoe and Marc. | ![]() My 8th graders hold their "JQ" (Jewish Quotient) charts, a reflective exercise that connects formative Jewish memories with sacred text |
![]() 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) | ![]() 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. |
![]() 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. | ![]() Two brave NFTY participants at a site in Jerusalem had no clue what silly educational game I was about to volunteer them for! | ![]() 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. |
![]() 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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