My Daughter's Berkeley Minyan Rotation - A Different View of Millennial Engagement
My Daughter's Berkeley Minyan Rotation - A Different View of Millennial Engagement My daughter lives in Berkeley, California (yes, that Berkeley, the one where hippies used to, and some still do, roam). Over a couple of visits during her grad school years, I witnessed a thriving Jewish life in the neighborhoods surrounding the campus. My daughter’s little shtetl hosts a variety of shuls and minyanim that attract a real mix of participants, some connected to the university, most not. To get a sense of Jewish life in her neighborhood, I’ve accompanied her to services at a few of the locations on her regular Shabbat rotation: Netivot Shalom (a Conservative synagogue), Congregation Beth Israel (an Orthodox synagogue), Minyan Dafna (a traditional egalitarian independent minyan , no Rabbi), and Urban Adamah (an educational farm and community center). As a Jewish educator and Rabbi, I cannot attend a shul or minyan without stepping out of my role as a ...