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New Orthodox shul, rabbi, in Boulder

summer, Rabbi Ami and Eliana Silver had decided to return to Israel when a casual conversation led to the reanimation of Boulder’s modern Orthodox community. Kehillath Aish Kodesh, the city’s only Orthodox shul for several years, closed it doors in January, 2014. Two months later, the Boulder Orthodox Synagogue rose from its remnants and held its first minyan. But the new congregation wasn’t sure it needed a rabbi. “It wasn’t even on their radar screen,” Silver says. “Or mine.” The Silvers were finishing up their tenure as the OU’s Torah educators at Cornell University, where they fostered students’ awareness and knowledge of Judaism and served on the Hillel staff. “After a three-year tenure at Cornell, we had decided to move back to Israel and find […]
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