the end of June, Rabbi Joseph Friedman will step down from the pulpit of DAT Minyan, the East Side modern Orthodox synagogue he has served as spiritual leader for the past five years. His decision to retire from the congregational rabbinate, announced earlier this year, does not mean that he’s actually retiring — far from it. Instead, he plans to devote all of his rabbinical and clerical energy to the Colorado Air National Guard, which he is already serving as fulltime support chaplain, the only clergyman in the state to hold that job description. Amidst the coronavirus, the rabbi has no idea how long his current military duties will last, no more than the rest of us know how long it will be for life […]
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