the three years since Gary Brandt arrived on the scene in Boulder, he has made a big impact on the way Jewish youth there “do Jewish.” Brandt, 34, became the director of the Boulder Jewish Teen Initiative in September, 2014. It seems a perfect fit for this southern transplant. Brandt was adopted by his parents through Jewish Family Services a few weeks after his birth in Memphis, Tenn. He was raised in a Reform Jewish household in his mother’s hometown of Baton Rouge, La. His father was president of the temple. Brandt is a true product of Jewish camping: His parents met at URJ’s Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Utica, Miss., and he was a camper there, then was senior assistant director of the camp […]
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