When my husband Anthony and I arrived this summer in San Diego, where I now serve Congregation Dor Hadash , we didn’t yet have a place to live. Luckily our friend, the great teacher Henny Kupferstein, lived just a mile and a half from the San Diego JCC, which is home for Dor Hadash. She was kind enough to let us stay with her for a few weeks, until we found a place of her own.

The three parties involved — my family, Dor Hadash, and Henny — all have migration in our past. Anthony grew up in Northern California and I’m a New Yorker; as a rabbinic family, this isn’t our first move. Dor Hadash, San Diego’s only Reconstructionist synagogue, has also called a number of places home. And Henny has a remarkable story, born a Belzer Hasid in Borough Park and today called “ Dr. Henny ,” a PhD l

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