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Rabbi Joshua Rose likes ‘wild, magnificent’ Boulder

Rabbi Joshua Rose likes ‘wild, magnificent’ Boulder

Rabbi Joshua Rose was born in Portland, Oregon. He received a degree in European and American history at Occidental College in Los Angeles and moved to Washington, DC, to  work  in public policy with the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

Rose received a masters in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. He taught high school before going to HUC-JIR, where he was ordained in 2007.

That summer, Rose came to Har Hashem in Boulder. He has been the senior rabbi for a year.

Rose and his wife Channah have three sons, Eliav, Akiva and newborn Rafael.

COMING from a long line of rabbis, Rabbi Joshua Rose could not ignore what he describes as a gravitational force that attracted him into to the life of a Jewish leader.

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Intermountain

Rabbi Flicker’s B’nai Israel based on volunteerism

Rabbi Flicker’s B’nai Israel based on volunteerismBorn and raised in Columbus Ohio, Rabbi Arthur Flicker received an undergraduate degree in history from Northwestern University and an MA in Jewish history from Ohio State University. In 1990, Flicker was ordained by Rabbi and Professor Rueben Lukens of Florida who taught at Harvard Divinity School. Rabbi Flicker served at congregations in Texas and Ohio. He became the rabbi at B’nai Israel, a Conservative congregation in Albuquerque, in 2005. He is married to Linda and they have two boys, A...

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Denver

Rabbi Asher Klein at DAT

Rabbi Asher Klein at DATDAT Minyan has welcomed its new rabbi, Asher Klein. Rabbi Klein holds a degree in accounting and rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University. He has taught Judaic studies in the Moriah School in Englewood, NJ, and in Manhattan Day School. He comes to Denver from his position as assistant rabbi at Congregation AABJ&D in West Orange, NJ, where he helped found “West Orange Encounters,” an adult education program geared toward engaging Jews with limited Judaic background....
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Intermountain

Rabbi Mel Glazer serves a dually affiliated congregation

Rabbi Mel Glazer serves a dually affiliated congregationOriginally, from Atlanta, Rabbi Mel Glazer received a degree in philosophy and Hebrew literature in a double degree program at Columbia and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Glazer received a masters in Judaica from JTS and was ordained in 1974. He was a rabbi in Canada from 1992-1995. In 1995, he received his doctorate in grief and mourning from the Princeton Theological Seminary.  Glazer has served at Temple Shalom in Colorado Springs for four years. He is married to Ellen Mossman Glazer, a ...
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Denver

Rabbi Rheins says Temple Sinai ‘buzzing with activity’

Rabbi Rheins says Temple Sinai ‘buzzing with activity’Rabbi Richard S. Rheins, born in Cincinnati and raised in Indianapolis, has been the senior rabbi at Temple Sinai since 2005. Receiving his bachelor’s in telecommunications from Indiana University, Rheins’ life took a renewed turn toward Judaism when he went to Israel in 1981 and lived on Kibbutz Ein HaShofet. Rheins attended HUC-JIR and was ordained in 1989. He served as an associate and senior rabbi at Temple Beth El in New York and Temple David in Pennsylvania. In 2005, he succeeded fou...
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The Newly Ordained – Yeshivat Maharat

Adam Soclof Meet the first three graduates of Yeshivat Maharat. ... [Link]

Streisand to receive honorary doctorate from Hebrew U.

Marcy Oster Jewish-American singer and actress Barbra Streisand will receive an honorary doctorate from The Hebrew University. ... [Link]

Mel Brooks documentary airs tonight on PBS

Jana Banin (PBS) Need a good laugh after last night’s trippy  episode of “Mad Men”? We suggest you tune into PBS this evening for “Mel Brooks: Make a Noise.” After years avoiding being t... [Link]

Mea Shearim residents attack haredi Orthodox soldiers

Marcy Oster Residents of the haredi Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim rioted after two haredi soldiers walked through the area. ... [Link]

Alleged front group for Hamas hosts hundreds at prestigious Brussels venue

Cnaan Liphshiz Hundreds attended an event that an association with allegedly close ties to Hamas organized at a prestigious venue in Brussels. ... [Link]

For Israeli pianist soldier, the truth (finally) strikes the right key

Tal Blumstein For an ex-musician in the IDF Orchestra, telling untrue stories of gun-toting service in the Israeli army was working out with the ladies. Then he fessed up at a Greenwich Village bar. ... [Link]

Day 20 of Jewish American Heritage Month: Visit a museum

Adam Soclof From Alaska to New York and everywhere in between, make time to visit a Jewish Museum. ... [Link]

Father of Mohammed al-Dura calls Israeli report false

Marcy Oster The father of Mohammed al-Dura said an Israeli report that claims the Palestinian boy was not killed in a shootout between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen is false and called for an internationa... [Link]

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