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Joined Ramat Shalom Synagogue
Joining this synagogue was a transformative part of my childhood. It is where my mother and I became involved and committed Jews. -
My Bat Mitzvah
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Joined my synagogue's Hebrew High Program
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First Started Keeping Kosher
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Confirmation
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First thought about being a rabbi
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First National Kallah of Reconstructionist Youth
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Went on the Alexander Muss High School in Israel Program
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First starting working for Camp JRF
In the summer of 2002 the Reconstructionist Movement launched a summer camp. I worked there every summer from 2002-2006. -
Went on March of the Living
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Became involved with Hillel at the University of Florida
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My Mother Passed Away
My mother and I were on this Jewish journerey together and her death left me on a more solo journey -
Started as a JCSC Fellow at the University of North Carolina
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Started Learning at Pardes
I honestly can't think of one single teacher out of the many Jewish learning experiences that I have had over the years. Instead I want to name the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem as one of my most memorable and Jewish learning experiences. It was the first place where I really engaged with texts and was also forced to confront the "traditional" Judaism that I was so afraid of. I also learned how to daven and what it meant to be shomeret shabbat for the first time. Interestingly -
I was accepted to Rabbinical School
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Started Rabbinical School
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My dad got sick
My father became ill just after Yom Kippur and spent 8 months in and out of the hospital before passing away the following June. -
My father passed away
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Left for Israel and my 3rd year of Rabbinical School
I spent the summer in Ulpan at Hebrew University and then the acadmic year at the Conservative Yeshiva and the Hartman Institute. -
Starting working for Prozdor
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Started at Pardes
I ended up at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem for two years. Much of my Jewish life and practice changed at this time. I discovered that I could be both Halachic and Egalitarian at the same time. I learned text, and liturgy, and was influenced by learning with a pluralistic student body which ultimately led me to Hebrew College.