The Itinerant Rabbi

Summary:

An Itinerant Rabbi ministers to congregations in small Southern towns

Website:

http://www.isjl.org

Tones:

Engaging, Melancholic, Sentimental

Language:

English

Description:

Deborah Kassoff works for the Institute of Southern Jewish Life and every Friday she packs her car and drives to towns like Natchez, Meridian, Clarksdale, and New Iberia. Kassoff is a traveling rabbi, and she provides religious services to congregations too small to have a rabbi of their own.

Although she always thought she?d take a more traditional pulpit, but during an assignment as a student rabbi in Greenville, Mississippi, she fell in love with the South. She was drawn to the challenge to serve communities that are outside the Jewish mainstream and to way that intensity of Southerners? religious beliefs.

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