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Introducing
Lorin
Troderman
RABBINIC INTERN
Lorin Troderman is a third year full-time Rabbinical Student at
Hebrew College, a non-denominational neo-hasidic inspired gem in
Newton, MA. He will be serving the Temple Beth El community for the
next year as a part-time (10 hrs/wk) intern. Blessed with the opportunity
to relocate to Portland for morning sunrises over the sea and delight in
strutting where the snow falls, Lorin brings his passion for Judaism, the
natural world and a commitment to building healthy sustainable
practices into our midst.
Born during the predawn snow of a Boston November morning, Lorin
grew up in New England where, due to frequent family moves, he
attended a variety of Day Schools and eventually settled in western
Massachusetts where his mother and step-father still live today. It was
during these formative Orthodox Day School years that Lorin developed
an affinity for Jewish learning as well as a deep pluralistic perspective
Where to Find Lorin that continues to expand with each passing year. His Jewish pluralism is
shaped by the following experiences: an Orthodox Bar Mitzvah; a
Lorin loves to get email: Conservative Jewish High school confirmation; swimming and teen
lorin.troderman@tbemaine.org leadership at the local Jewish Community Center; volunteering at an
Atheistic kibbutz; raising his children in a Jewish Renewal community in
Lorin's Upcoming programs: Santa Cruz, CA; celebrating the music of Reform ritual; completing a 2
year Certificate program in Interfaith Family Jewish Engagement
Shabbat Shuva D'var Torah
concurrently with his Hebrew College Rabbinical School studies; and
September 26 · midway through Shabbat
most recently participating as a congregant of a Reconstructionist Shul
morning services on Zoom in West Newton, MA.
After graduating Babson College in Wellesley MA, Lorin spent the next
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HIGH HOLIDAYS 2020 October 3 · 10am · Jewell Falls consciousness. Upon returning to the United States he married and
Shabbat Bachutz
5 years in Australia developing an environmental and feminist
November 7th · 10am · Hobstone Woods
settled in Santa Cruz, CA, where he took on the task of directing the
December 5th · 10am · Macworth Island
Hillel at UC Santa Cruz in the late 90’s. He later earned an MBA focusing
on sustainability while developing a green business at the beginning of
Cultivating Active Hope in the Season of
YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity) and SunRidge Farms building
the Koheleth this century. While raising two sons (Dylan and Max), Lorin worked with
October 6 · 7pm · Virtual Zoom Sukkah more sustainable consciousness in his communities.
Post divorce, Lorin found himself living by the sea, where in a
SHOFAR רפוש Deep Jewish Ecological Principles to reconnection to his roots he reinitiated a daily davening practice and
hunger for Jewish learning that led him to Hebrew College. Lorin lives
Navigate Our Place in a Changing World
3 sessions: October 18, 25, November 1 with his partner Sussi Rowntree and Jasper, a 14 year old black
lab/border collie who keeps them both in line. All three of them are
7 Zoom · 7pm - 8pm looking forward to the snow and once again living by the sea!
