BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Denver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2083@headenver.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260509T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260509T113000 DTSTAMP:20260417T173459Z URL:https://www.headenver.org/events/torah-for-today-in-the-library-with-r abbi-doug-weber-4/ SUMMARY:Torah for Today in the Library with Rabbi Doug Weber DESCRIPTION:\n\nA native of Westbury\, New York\, Rabbi Weber studied music (tuba performance) at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam\, NY and philo sophy and electronic music composition at SUNY Albany\, earning a BA with various distinctions in 1976. He earned both a Masters in Hebrew Literatur e (1981) and rabbinic ordination (1982) from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City\, having studied there and at its Jerusalem campus. Honoris Causa  Doctor of Divinity degrees were bestowed by HUC-JIR in 2007 and The Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2010 . He and Jessica have been married since 1975.  In 1993 Doug migrated (wh at he calls his “sect change”) from the Reform movement and joined The Rabbinical Assembly. He served congregations in Staunton/Harrisonburg VA\ , Elyria OH\, Auburn ME\, Boulder\, CO and Rutland\, VT from 2005 becoming Rabbi Emeritus in 2017. He helped found (playing tuba and euphonium) Rutl and Jewish Center’s Klezmer Band and is currently Tubist with the Denver Rock Orchestra and often plays euphonium at Festo Festo and at HEA whenev er Eitan convenes the House Band for festive events.\n\nRabbi Weber was (t o the best of his knowledge) the creator of the now wide-spread practice o f concluding Yom Kippur with “Shofar-In-The-Round” as well as several jokes that have entered the canon. In 1993\, Rabbi Weber initiated discuss ions with the Conservative Movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standa rds about whether or not a bat kohen can participate in duchaning. Fun-Fac t: Doug was a childhood friend of Howard Stern. Doug is also a fairly dece nt curler (as in Men With Brooms).\n\nRabbi Weber was Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Castleton University from 2007 through Spring semester\, 20 20\, where he taught courses including Comparative Religion\, The Western Faiths\, Introduction to Philosophy\, Religion and Violence and his favori te\, an Honors course in Cosmology\, co-taught with an Astronomy Professor .  He taught similar courses at the College of Saint Joseph in Rutland fr om 2008 until it became financially insolvent and closed in 2019.\n\nAfter Spring semester 2020\, facing the specter of teaching only “virtually ” in Zoom Hell\, Doug and Jessica (a public school Music Teacher) decide d it was time fully to retire and be nearer to some of their grown childre n and grandchildren.  Said offspring include Dr. Zach Weber\, (Chair of P hilosophy Program at Otago University in New Zealand\, married to Dr. Vick ie MacKnight) and their sons Oskar\, Edgar and Felix\; Taliah (an architec t married to Dr. Mitch Ohriner\, Professor of Music Theory at Denver U.) a nd their sons Nadav and Zev\; and Eli (an engineer married to Dr. Aleah So mmers\, a research Glaciologist at Dartmouth) their daughter\, “Sunny” and twin sons\, Yofi and Pele. (So many “Doctors” but not one of them can do a thing to help if you’re sick!) He and Jessica relocated to Cen tennial\, in December\, 2020 and became HEA members when pandemic restrict ions began to loosen.\n\n \;\n\nContact:   rebsterdw@gmail.com CATEGORIES:Adult Programming,Featured END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR