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SUMMARY:Torah for Today in the Library with Rabbi Doug Weber
DESCRIPTION:\nMy topic for this week's Torah 4 Today is: "Changing Your Jew
 ish Name"\nParashat Shelach begins with a list of names of representatives
  of the ancient twelve tribes\, among them Yehoshua Bin Nun. Torah notes t
 hat Moses slightly emended that name but doesn't say why\, or if there was
  a certain occasion on which this happened or if there was any kind of cer
 emony involved. Other Biblical figures (notably\, Moses' father-in-law\, k
 nown in Torah by at least three different names) are known by multiple nam
 es or had a name change (e.g. Sarai to Sarah\, Ya'akov/Jacob to Israel and
  many others). So much for ancient days\; Jews have always had a tradition
  of being able to change their names under certain circumstances. Included
  in our brief dip into this ocean of customs will be a detailed look at a 
 "Ritual For Adding or Changing a Name" from Hamadrich\, a very traditional
  Rabbi's Manual published in New York in 1939.\n\n\n\nA native of Westbury
 \, New York\, Rabbi Weber studied music (tuba performance) at the Crane Sc
 hool of Music in Potsdam\, NY and philosophy and electronic music composit
 ion at SUNY Albany\, earning a BA with various distinctions in 1976. He ea
 rned both a Masters in Hebrew Literature (1981) and rabbinic ordination (1
 982) from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York 
 City\, having studied there and at its Jerusalem campus. Honoris Causa  D
 octor 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 (what he calls his “sect change”) 
 from the Reform movement and joined The Rabbinical Assembly. He served con
 gregations 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) Rutland Jewish Center’s Klezmer Band 
 and is currently Tubist with the Denver Rock Orchestra and often plays eup
 honium at Festo Festo and at HEA whenever Eitan convenes the House Band fo
 r festive events.\n\nRabbi Weber was (to the best of his knowledge) the cr
 eator of the now wide-spread practice of concluding Yom Kippur with “Sho
 far-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 kohe
 n can participate in duchaning. Fun-Fact: Doug was a childhood friend of H
 oward Stern. Doug is also a fairly decent curler (as in Men With Brooms).\
 n\nRabbi Weber was Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Castleton University
  from 2007 through Spring semester\, 2020\, where he taught courses includ
 ing Comparative Religion\, The Western Faiths\, Introduction to Philosophy
 \, Religion and Violence and his favorite\, an Honors course in Cosmology\
 , co-taught with an Astronomy Professor.  He taught similar courses at th
 e College of Saint Joseph in Rutland from 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) decided it was time fully to retire and be 
 nearer to some of their grown children and grandchildren.  Said offspring
  include Dr. Zach Weber\, (Chair of Philosophy Program at Otago University
  in New Zealand\, married to Dr. Vickie MacKnight) and their sons Oskar\, 
 Edgar and Felix\; Taliah (an architect married to Dr. Mitch Ohriner\, Prof
 essor of Music Theory at Denver U.) and their sons Nadav and Zev\; and Eli
  (an engineer married to Dr. Aleah Sommers\, a research Glaciologist at Da
 rtmouth) their daughter\, “Sunny” and twin sons\, Yofi and Pele. (So m
 any “Doctors” but not one of them can do a thing to help if you’re s
 ick!) He and Jessica relocated to Centennial\, in December\, 2020 and beca
 me HEA members when pandemic restrictions began to loosen.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nC
 ontact:   rebsterdw@gmail.com
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