A couple of months ago, I attended an OCCSP lecture in Irvine by Dr. Ron Wolfson, essentially advertising his new book, Relational Judaism. It was an interesting talk – he definitely did a great job highlighting problematic issues that are in Jewish life, focussing on issues synagogues have been havingContinue Reading
Having worked for four years out here in SoCal and being able to accept donations via check for my activities, I frequently have been asked about accepting online donations. For years (despite my best efforts), I have tried getting a PayPal account set up and haven’t been able to (althoughContinue Reading
Having formally begun my young adult work (with 20s-30s) less then a year ago (under the organizational name, Southern California Jewish Young Adult Enrichment), I have experimented with different program modalities, different days of the week, and different cities in Southern California. In November and December (perhaps, January, as well),Continue Reading
This fall, I have found that I have been spending a lot of my work with/for Beach Hillel. To be specific, about 62.5% of my energy has focused on working with Beach Hillel. In contrast to throughout out last year where 44% of my time was with Beach Hillel, thisContinue Reading
Just as I have done with Twitter and Instagram, I have now created a separate Facebook profile for my professional use. Feel free to Friend Me.Continue Reading
Last week, I held a vodka-tasting event, which paired up with discussing Jewish angles on vampires. It was interesting. Having never taken part let alone running a vodka-tasting, it was a new experience for me. Having heard a suggestion for this year’s October tasting and discussion to do “Vodkas andContinue Reading
The past couple of days, Clal held the first session of its fifth cohort of its Rabbis Without Borders fellowship. Having been a past participant of the fellowship, I am always interested to see what is being shared out into the public from the sessions. Not only simply because IContinue Reading
As in years past, I spent many activities with Long Beach Hillel for the holiday of Sukkot, enriching its programs and its students. Beginning with leading a Beach Hillel staff learning session on Sukkot, it continued with putting up both the off-campus and the on-campus sukkot (and picking up theContinue Reading
Since I have worked in my current position, included in which is serving as the rabbi for Long Beach Hillel, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life holds an annual [inter]national staff conference in St. Louis, known as Hillel Institute, at the beautiful campus of Washington University either at theContinue Reading
For the fourth consecutive year, I attended the annual Hillel staff conference, Hillel Institute, in St. Louis. As with the previous two years, I was there due to the financial support of Long Beach Hillel (I had to raise money from private individuals to make it possible for me toContinue Reading