Sh'liach K'hilah news

The Sh'liach K'hilah program (that's the para-rabbinic program I've mentioned) has winter weekend sessions in between the summer ones. They're on specialized topics and once you're in the program you can attend any of them. (You're not limited to the ones during your years.) Last year the winter session was in LA and I reluctantly decided I couldn't go. This year's was scheduled for Cincinnati and I was looking forward to it.

Unfortunately, we just got the news that we didn't meet minimum enrollment, so it won't be held. Dang!

We also got the news recently that the person who's been running the program is taking another position (in another city). Our loss is someone else's gain, but it's disappointing because she's done such a good job with the program. I hope her replacement is half as good.

I fear that this may doom my aspirations for the "unofficial third year" that I began to talk with her about after this summer's session. (We started to talk before the holidays but she was too busy then.) I just wrote to her about this (asking if her successor is known yet); we'll see what happens. I was really hoping we'd be able to get people together for another week-long session, this time centered more around text study, at HUC where they have the library to support that.