Month: April 2021

Chaplaincy during COVID

The dining room opened yesterday at the Seasons, a senior living facility. This statement may seem pretty mundane. You might assume that it was closed for renovation, or that it had just been cleaned, in which case this would not be a noteworthy event. But this is a noteworthy event, because the dining room has been closed for six weeks. It reopened…

Teaching Torah Trope in a Virtual World

Last summer, as I prepared to begin my TJF fellowship at Rockdale Temple’s religious school, I reflected on what skills and strengths I could bring to my teaching role. I have several years of religious school teaching experience under my belt already, I wrote and implemented a curriculum for seventh graders at camp, I love working with middle schoolers, and…