As my
wife announced this morning, our family will be moving to Cincinnati, Ohio
this summer. While we will be sad to depart from folks we know here, as well as
the unquestionably lovely weather here in southern California, this move also
represents a great opportunity for our family, having moved
to southern California eight and half years ago.
My wife will be moving on
from having served as the Executive Director of Long Beach Hillel for eight and a half years
to becoming the new Executive Director of Cincinnati
Hillel. We’re very excited for her new position, which she begins in
August.
Ever since I parted ways
with my former employer, having worked in that position for over six and
half years, I have been taking care of my son and have been involved more with
my daughters. It
has been quite the humbling experience. With my son’s beginning to walk and
soon to go to preschool, I am greatly looking forward to getting back into the
workforce.
One impetus for us to move
is also looking for more of a Shabbat community. While we used to be able to
walk to our local Chabad shul for holidays
and sometimes for Shabbat, there wasn’t an eruv for us to be able to
carry anything, nor for us to bring our younger children. With our move, we are excited to be moving to a
Modern Orthodox community with an eruv, which should be great to have a more robust Shabbat community, which should be especially great for our kids.
It has been a great 8.5
years for us here in SoCal, especially having three of our kids and raising them
in their younger years, but now it’s time for us to move on, professionally and
as a family. We still have a couple months left here, so we’re still here to
say good-bye to fellow SoCal people.
