Park Synagogue’s new executive director, Benjamin Weltman, has been as far east as Cambridge, Mass., where he obtained his Master of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, to as far west as Seattle, where he got to work within a realm outside of Earth in his role on the satellite internet program known as Starlink at SpaceX.

But even after working on both coasts and helping the most valuable private aerospace company in the world shoot for the stars, Weltman’s love for his hometown of Cleveland never left him.

“I wanted to come home to my family,” Weltman, a graduate of Orange High School, told the Cleveland Jewish News. “I wanted to come back to the beautiful green spaces and fresh air. I wanted to come back to all the amazing people and places that I’ve loved since I was a

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