About
About Climbing Sinai
Climbing Sinai is my attempt to explore issues dealing with Jewish learning and informal education; trends in the Jewish community regarding education, knowledge, and identity; and the Jewish nonprofit world as it relates to those topics. Occasionally, when it is relevant, I will chime in with my own personal philosophies and experiences.
I am also a freelance blogger for the Jewish Publication Society, and many of my entries will be cross-posted at the JPS Blog. However, the opinions expressed on Climbing Sinai do not necessarily reflect the views of the Jewish Publication Society. (And hey, sometimes, the opinions expressed here won’t even necessarily be my own to begin with!)
About Naomi
This corn-fed Midwesterner is a born, bred, and practicing Modern Orthodox Jew… who also happens to believe in things like religious pluralism, feminism, and the like. This seeming paradox does not cause her much angst, however – she prefers to relish in what some would call her own willful hypocrisy. Ironically, she detests the color gray.
During the past couple of years, she’s managed to wrangle a bachelor’s degree in history, work in online marketing at the Jewish Publication Society, and get trapped in an elevator with a mediocre a capella group. She is a recent transplant to New York, and is pursuing master’s degrees in Jewish Studies and nonprofit management.
Naomi isn’t a hippy, though she likes to think that she has some hippy-ish tendencies, including a passion for folk music, campfires, and super-long Carlebach services. She loves history, rain, coffee, and street musicians. She was once told that she has osteoporosis in her funny bones, which probably explains why her writing can only be considered “cheeky” at best.
