Leah's Jewish Growth Timeline

By LeahCC

  • Begins kindergarten at Temple Emanuel Community Day School

  • Receives first siddur

  • Graduates from Day School

  • Bat Mitzvah

    Officiated by Rabbi Jonathan Aaron and Cantor Yonah Kliger

  • Starts Jewish Student Union at high school

  • Joins Junior Cantors, leads Shabbat and High Holiday services

    Learned with Cantor Kliger

  • Chants the 10 Commandments at Confirmation

  • Travels to Israel for the first time (with group of American and Israeli teens)

  • Works as counselor at Camp Modin for two summers

  • Studies abroad in Spain for the semester

    Encounters Jewish community, unlike any she has met before. Meets many people who have never met anyone Jewish

  • Counselor at Passport NYC

  • Assistant Directs production of Bad Jews

  • Completes yoga teacher training

  • Begins teaching at Temple Sinai

  • Moves to Jerusalem for year of study at Conservative Yeshiva

  • Begins leading trips to Israel as counselor

  • Joins synagogue for the first time

  • Gets engaged in Jerusalem

  • Begins teaching at Kesher

  • Gets married

  • Begins rabbinical school

  • Co-leads high holiday services for the first time

  • COVID seder alone with partner

  • Begins 3rd year of rabbinical school in Jerusalem