Mark your calendars for Chocolate Shabbat on February 6th! Who doesn’t love chocolate?! I, for one, adore all forms of chocolate. Mark your calendars because I will bringing in Rabbi Deborah Prinz as a Scholar-In-Residence. Rabbi Prinz is the author of On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao, a book which explores Jews and their relationship to chocolate and is full of stories and contemporary and historical chocolate recipes. Rabbi Prinz is also the co-author of the children’s book The Boston Chocolate Party, a story of friendship, freedom and the love of chocolate set against the backdrop of Chanukah during the American fight for independence. Rabbi Prinz will be our guest at Shabbat services where she will be sharing her book The Boston Chocolate Party, which will be followed by a delicious chocolate-themed oneg. Then, Rabbi Prinz will also be our guest of honor at Wisdom and Wine as she leads an Adult Education conversation about what is the best chocolate? After that, Rabbi Prinz will be signing copies of her books. Feel free to order them ahead of time online or wherever you buy books. It should be a great time for chocolate lovers of all ages!
About Rabbi Deborah Prinz
Rabbi Prinz has held a number of leadership positions in the national and regional Reform movement, having recently served the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) as Director of Program and Member Services and the Director of the Joint Commission on Rabbinic Mentoring. She has mentored rabbinical students through the Mayerson program at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and was also a Senior Fellow at HUC-JIR’s Center for the Study of Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (2015-2016). She has consulted for HUC-JIR, the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), and other organizations. Elected by her colleagues, Rabbi Prinz held each office of the Board of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis and assumed its presidency in 2005. She was honored to conduct the worship services at regional and national biennials of the URJ. Along with Rabbi Karen Fox, she served as a founding Co-Coordinator of WRN. The Rabbi Emerita of Temple Adat Shalom, San Diego County, California, she held the position of Senior Rabbi for almost twenty years. Prior to that she was, for seven years, the Rabbi of a synagogue in Bergen County, New Jersey, and also the Assistant Rabbi of Central Synagogue in Manhattan. She frequently delivers talks to community organizations.