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Joining this synagogue was a transformative part of my childhood. It is where my mother and I became involved and committed Jews.
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In the summer of 2002 the Reconstructionist Movement launched a summer camp. I worked there every summer from 2002-2006.
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My mother and I were on this Jewish journerey together and her death left me on a more solo journey
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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
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My father became ill just after Yom Kippur and spent 8 months in and out of the hospital before passing away the following June.
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I spent the summer in Ulpan at Hebrew University and then the acadmic year at the Conservative Yeshiva and the Hartman Institute.
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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.