Student Rabbi

I am currently studying Tanakh and Talmud at Hebrew Union College’s Beit Midrash summer program. A handful of students get to study and discuss texts in depth with amazing faculty members, even with academics from other rabbinical schools! We study from Monday through Thursday, and let me tell you: we are having so much fun! Every day is full of laughter; we love what we do. I feel very lucky to be spending my summer with amazing friends who love “nerdy” Jewish stuff as much as I do.

At the end of July, I will be traveling back to Guatemala to visit my family and friends. Finally, in August, before the fall semester begins, I will go back to Argentina for the Latin American Reform Movement’s Biennial.

I am missing the congregation and cannot wait to find an opportunity to return and pay you all a visit.

—Rebeca Orantes, July 2024