Rabbi Lynne Downey Goldsmith

Rabbi Lynne Downey Goldsmith moved to Colorado to retire and failed Retirement 101. She is the part-time rabbi of Temple Or Hadash in Fort Collins, CO, and works with Rabbi Jamie Korngold, the Adventure Rabbi in Boulder, CO.

View of the ocean from the deck of a cruise ship

The Joy of Celebrating Hanukkah on a Cruise Ship

Rabbi Lynne Downey Goldsmith

Last year, our family took a cruise during Hanukkah. The nightly candle lighting brought together so many people and different kinds of “Jewish” into one community.

Rabbi Lynne Downey Goldsmith and congregants celebrating in the sukkah in Dothan, AL

How to Live Jewishly Where There Are Few Jews

Rabbi Lynne Downey Goldsmith

It is not easy to be Jewish in a remote area in which Jews are a minority and there are no nearby Jewish communities, but we did the best we could.

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