BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//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:20260507T185730Z 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:\nTopic for May 9: Martyrs or Monsters\nA native of Westbury\, New York\, Rabbi Weber studied music (tuba performance) at the Crane Schoo l of Music in Potsdam\, NY and philosophy and electronic music composition at SUNY Albany\, earning a BA with various distinctions in 1976. He earne d both a Masters in Hebrew Literature (1981) and rabbinic ordination (1982 ) from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York Cit y\, having studied there and at its Jerusalem campus. Honoris Causa  Doct or of Divinity degrees were bestowed by HUC-JIR in 2007 and The Jewish The ological Seminary of America in 2010. He and Jessica have been married sin ce 1975.  In 1993 Doug migrated (what he calls his “sect change”) fro m the Reform movement and joined The Rabbinical Assembly. He served congre gations in Staunton/Harrisonburg VA\, Elyria OH\, Auburn ME\, Boulder\, CO and Rutland\, VT from 2005 becoming Rabbi Emeritus in 2017. He helped fou nd (playing tuba and euphonium) Rutland Jewish Center’s Klezmer Band and is currently Tubist with the Denver Rock Orchestra and often plays euphon ium at Festo Festo and at HEA whenever Eitan convenes the House Band for f estive events.\n\nRabbi Weber was (to the best of his knowledge) the creat or of the now wide-spread practice of concluding Yom Kippur with “Shofar -In-The-Round” as well as several jokes that have entered the canon. In 1993\, Rabbi Weber initiated discussions with the Conservative Movement’ s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards about whether or not a bat kohen c an participate in duchaning. Fun-Fact: Doug was a childhood friend of Howa rd Stern. Doug is also a fairly decent curler (as in Men With Brooms).\n\n Rabbi Weber was Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Castleton University fr om 2007 through Spring semester\, 2020\, where he taught courses including Comparative Religion\, The Western Faiths\, Introduction to Philosophy\, Religion and Violence and his favorite\, an Honors course in Cosmology\, c o-taught with an Astronomy Professor.  He taught similar courses at the C ollege of Saint Joseph in Rutland from 2008 until it became financially in solvent and closed in 2019.\n\nAfter Spring semester 2020\, facing the spe cter of teaching only “virtually” in Zoom Hell\, Doug and Jessica (a p ublic school Music Teacher) decided it was time fully to retire and be nea rer to some of their grown children and grandchildren.  Said offspring in clude Dr. Zach Weber\, (Chair of Philosophy Program at Otago University in New Zealand\, married to Dr. Vickie MacKnight) and their sons Oskar\, Edg ar and Felix\; Taliah (an architect married to Dr. Mitch Ohriner\, Profess or of Music Theory at Denver U.) and their sons Nadav and Zev\; and Eli (a n engineer married to Dr. Aleah Sommers\, a research Glaciologist at Dartm outh) 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 Centennial\, in December\, 2020 and became HEA members when pandemic restrictions began to loosen.\n\n \;\n\nCont act:   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