Who Was That Person Sitting Next to Me at Synagogue?

Speaker: Herb Levine

Herb Levine was born in Boston, MA, raised in Newton, educated at Harvard and Princeton, where he met Ellen Frankel in a graduate class in Romanticism. They embarked on a life together that has been centered in Jewish study and practice. He and Ellen have been actively involved in advising a Hillel,creating a day school and teaching in synagogues and non-profits focused on adult Jewish education. Herb had a career teaching literature at Franklin and Marshall College, followed by a second career in non-profit management, working on issues of youth violence, diversity & intergroup relations and homelessness policy. Pursuing his twin passions of poetry and Jewishness, he has written a scholarly book on the Psalms and two volumes of bi-lingual poetry in Hebrew and English. He is delighted to be living at Pelican Cove and to be a member of Jewish communities in Auburn, ME and Sarasota.