About Me ~
I grew up in a traditionally religious world of New York in the 1950s and 1960s.
I was not planning to enter seminary, but I wanted to get a more contemporary understanding of religious traditions, so I studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) for a number of years in the early 1980s ~ these were the days before JTS was ordaining women, but when we were being admitted into the graduate school, to study alongside men. (If I recall correctly, if we completed the full rabbinic curriculum, we were offered to graduate with a Doctor of Hebrew Letters degree.)
I taught religious studies for a number of years, and also went for chaplaincy training; after a few years of volunteering as an interfaith chaplain in a nursing home, I decided to complete rabbinic training.
