Rabbi and Judy

In her prologue to Rabbi and Judy, the author asks, "How does a teenager who has never been away from home... move with a new husband to a life over five hundred miles away?" That move was to Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, where her new husband begins his studies for the rabbinate and Judy begins to learn what it means to be the wife of a rabbi. Her account of her life as a rabbi's wife, a rebbetzin, is fascinating - at times happy, at times sad, at times challenging, but ultimately rewarding. Her life journey takes her from Cincinnati to a village in upstate New York, to the tropical island of Curacao, to bustling, exciting Chicago where she earns a graduate degree in art history, and to suburban Philadelphia. The congregations with which she interacts in each of these places are very different; each in its own way has a profound impact on her life and she, in turn, offers something unique to each of them. Each congregation also provides her with favorite recipes which she generously shares with the reader. Her life's journey becomes even more peripatetic, especially after retirement: Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, India, South Africa, Vietnam, Thailand, European and South American cities, and of course, over twenty trips to Israel. This book covers six decades of an interesting life.