Its been my pleasure and honor to work with Rabbi Kurland, not only here at Federation, but as co-clergy at Congregation Shir Shalom. I met Rabbi Kurland in 2004 when I first interviewed with the then Nanuet Hebrew Center. When I came to the congregation in 2005, I found a colleague who was …
One of his missions in life is to make people smile.
Not a quick, polite smile. An ear to ear grin, perhaps accompanied by an eyeroll, but always aimed to lighten the heart and the burdens it carries, both seen and unseen.
I am grateful for the almost five years I’ve known him.
Who am I…
Growing up in a Conservative Jewish environment offered many opportunities to find expressions of Judaism beyond simply attending services. I am a second generation American and forever generation Jew. The sense of spirituality and belonging was reinforced through my younger years of youth g…
Growing up Jewish in America meant straddling two societies, living among two cultures. My childhood experiences vacillated between Jewish pride and respectful reticence. The Pennsylvania city where I spent my youth was home to a significant number of Jewish families, mostly professionals an…
Yesterday, I read (with the kind of resigned, predictable anger tempered with fatalism that we’ve all come to know) of the British Museum’s decision to postpone a lecture on “Ancient Israel and Judah in the British Museum” set for this week. It came as a part of the Museum’s partic…
