{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/nz80k27p18/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Wolpe, Ariel Root"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAriel Root Wolpe was interviewed by Casey Fishman in Atlanta, Georgia on April 21, 2023.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eAriel Root Wolpe is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but now resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two children. Wolpe studied religion and music at Emory University. While in college, she learned about Renewal Judaism, which she continued to explore in California after she graduated. She started volunteering at Wilderness Torah and got involved in the Renewal Judaism scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2015, she attended rabbinical school at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. After ordination, she moved to Philadelphia to complete a residency in Jewish music at Hadar’s Rising Song Institute and she served as Rabbi Artist in Residence at Adath Israel on the Main Line. Wolpe and her family moved to Atlanta in 2020, where she began to develop the Ma’alot spiritual community, which is rooted in nature, music, and Jewish wisdom.  \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Ariel Root Wolpe sharing her experiences with Judaism during her childhood and what led her to get involved in the Renewal Judaism movement. She discusses the influences and experiences that lead her to become a rabbi. Wolpe reflects on what she wanted to do with her rabbinate and what lead her to think about starting an alternative Jewish community in Atlanta, Georgia. She talks about her residency at Hadar’s Rising Song Institute and her starting to formulate the idea of Ma’alot. She describes the three pillars that Ma’alot is based on and how the community works to create a new Jewish experience for those involved. She discusses some of the programs Ma’alot has done that connect music, nature, and Judaism. She shares the challenges she faced in getting Ma’alot going during the pandemic and how it has changed over the last few years. She shares her hopes for Ma’alot’s future to reach those who are looking for a non-traditional Jewish experience. Wolpe concludes the interviewing by sharing what an exciting time it is to be a Jewish professional and to see the changes occurring, and even with the challenges she shares her gratitude to be a part of it.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29086"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2023-04-21 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Wolpe, Ariel Root (Interviewee)","Fishman, Casey (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Jewish Oral History Project","Collecting These Times Oral History Project"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Wolpe, Ariel Root (personal name)","Henderson, Lauren (personal name)","Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (geographic term)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Los Angeles, California (geographic term)","Israel (geographic term)","Council of American Jewish Museum (corporate name)","Young Judaea (corporate name)","Emory University (corporate name)","Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (corporate name)","ALEPH, Alliance for Jewish Renewal (corporate name)","Wilderness Torah (corporate name)","American Jewish University (corporate name)","Congregation Or Hadash (corporate name)","Mishkan Chicago (corporate name)","Emergent Jewish Network (corporate name)","Hadar’s Rising Song Institute (corporate name)","Open Dor (corporate name)","Ma’alot (corporate name)","COVID-19 (named event)","Rabbi (other)","Synagogue (other)","Conservative Judaism (other)","Reconstructionist (other)","Renewal Judaism (other)","Reform Judaism (other)","Orthodox Judaism (other)","Carlebach Minyan (other)","Minyan (other)","Hanukkah (other)","Hanukiah (other)","Christian (other)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAriel Root Wolpe was interviewed by Casey Fishman in Atlanta, Georgia on April 21, 2023.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAriel Root Wolpe is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but now resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two children. Wolpe studied religion and music at Emory University. While in college, she learned about Renewal Judaism, which she continued to explore in California after she graduated. She started volunteering at Wilderness Torah and got involved in the Renewal Judaism scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2015, she attended rabbinical school at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. After ordination, she moved to Philadelphia to complete a residency in Jewish music at Hadar\u0026rsquo;s Rising Song Institute and she served as Rabbi Artist in Residence at Adath Israel on the Main Line. Wolpe and her family moved to Atlanta in 2020, where she began to develop the Ma\u0026rsquo;alot spiritual community, which is rooted in nature, music, and Jewish wisdom. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Ariel Root Wolpe sharing her experiences with Judaism during her childhood and what led her to get involved in the Renewal Judaism movement. She discusses the influences and experiences that lead her to become a rabbi. Wolpe reflects on what she wanted to do with her rabbinate and what lead her to think about starting an alternative Jewish community in Atlanta, Georgia. She talks about her residency at Hadar\u0026rsquo;s Rising Song Institute and her starting to formulate the idea of Ma\u0026rsquo;alot. She describes the three pillars that Ma\u0026rsquo;alot is based on and how the community works to create a new Jewish experience for those involved. She discusses some of the programs Ma\u0026rsquo;alot has done that connect music, nature, and Judaism. She shares the challenges she faced in getting Ma\u0026rsquo;alot going during the pandemic and how it has changed over the last few years. She shares her hopes for Ma\u0026rsquo;alot\u0026rsquo;s future to reach those who are looking for a non-traditional Jewish experience. Wolpe concludes the interviewing by sharing what an exciting time it is to be a Jewish professional and to see the changes occurring, and even with the challenges she shares her gratitude to be a part of it.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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The effort represents a collective approach to collect\nstories, preserve and interpret them, and create a fascinating historical record\nof these times. It's April 21st, 2023. My name is Casey Fishman, and I'm here\nwith Ariel Root Wolpe. Ariel, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with\nme. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We're just going to start with some basic questions, if you can just state\nyour name, a little bit about your background, where you grew up, where you went\nto school. Just just a little bit of background information.\n\nWOLPE: My name is Ariel Root Wolpe and I am from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I\ngrew up in a Jewish household with my mom, dad, sister, and a dog. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My dad's\nfather was a Conservative rabbi growing up. We were very involved in synagogue\nlife and did all of the Jewish kids stuff. [We] went to camp, went to day\nschool. My mom converted to Judaism before marrying my father. I grew up with a\nvery Jewish one side and then a non-Jewish different denominations of Christians\non the other side. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our household was completely Jewish, but I got exposed at a\nyoung age to different ways of practicing culture and spirituality. What else\nshould I say? I started playing music when I was very young. I learned guitar,\nand I started writing songs when I was 14 years old. That's been a big part of\nmy personal development and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the way that I connect with my tradition and with my\nemotions and with Jewish tradition. After high school, l did a gap year in\nIsrael. I did a year through Young Judaea Year Course. Then I went to Emory\nUniversity for undergraduate where I majored in religion and minored in music.\nDuring that time, I discovered ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this new, I mostly was studying other religion. I\nactually only took one class in Judaism. But in that class, I discovered a new\ndenomination that I hadn't heard of. I had grown up sort of Conservative and\nReconstructionist. My grandfather's synagogue was Conservative, but he retired\nwhen I was 11 years old and we switched to an independent minyan, which was\nmostly led. . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by the faculty of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. I\nkind of had grown up in a dual Jewish denominational space. Then I learned in\ncollege about Renewal Judaism. I was like this looks cool. What's this about?\nThat brought me to California to explore that community, which was a little bit\nin Los Angeles [California], but mostly in the Bay Area. I moved out there after\ncollege and got involved in an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"organization called Wilderness Torah, which is\nsort of . . . The founder is now a Renewal ALEPH [ALEPH, Alliance for Jewish\nRenewal] ordained rabbi. But I was just sort of in this like Renewal scene, but\nit was also nondenominational and there was a lot of innovative Jewish life\ngoing on. During that time, I found places where I felt like I really fit in and\ncould imagine myself as being a rabbi in these types of communities. I decided\nto go to rabbinical school after a few years ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Los Angeles. I went to American\nJewish University.\n\nFISHMAN: Did you always know that you wanted to be a rabbi or did you sort of\ncome to that as you were sort of discovering new types of Judaism?\n\nWOLPE: I did not always know, I had considered it for one week during college.\nFor most of college, I thought I was going to go into academia. My dad is in\nacademia. Part of why I went to Emory is because he got a job there directing\nthe Center for Ethics. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother's father was also in academia, so I had a lot\nof immediate models of that, even though my grandfather and two of my uncles on\nmy father's side are Conservative rabbis. My grandfather passed away, but I had\nthat model too. But I didn't really, I wasn't really like them. I knew it wasn't\ngoing to be a rabbi like them. Even though I sort of considered it, there wasn't\nreally like a model of me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to look to, to be like, \"Oh, I could do this.\" I\nremember in college talking to one of my uncles during that week that I was\nthinking about it and I was like, \"Do you think I could be a rabbi?\" He did not\nreally encourage it. I kind of was like, because I think he looked at me and he\nwas like, \"You are nothing like, you are very far from what I understand . . .\"\n\nFISHMAN: From the rabbis I know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WOLPE: I think he said it to me, \"Maybe a Reform rabbi.\" I was like, \"Okay . . .\nthat's not working.\" But that's not going to, I'm not going to go in that\ndirection. But then when I was in the Bay Area, I was like doing all the things\nthat rabbi . . . I was attracted to all of the types of things that rabbis would\ntraditionally do. As I was looking around, trying to figure out what is my\ncareer going to be. Where am I? How am I going to make money? There was . . .\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the blockade in every direction was ordination of some kind. I was leading\nservices at Wilderness Torah. I had created this chanting group at one of the\nRenewal synagogues. I was [doing] a lot of service leading. I was leading\nindependent [indistict: 6:26: possibly: T'filah] Egalitarian Carlebach minyan.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Just wanting to be able to offer, to create and hold ritual space, and to offer\npastoral care and things like that I didn't have training for it.\n\nFISHMAN: You went to rabbinical school, and then what did you feel like you\nwanted to do with your rabbinate? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you always know that you wanted to come\nback to Atlanta and start a unique community here? What sort of led you back to Atlanta?\n\nWOLPE: Throughout rabbinical school it wasn't very clear . . . to me what I\nwanted to do. I felt like my skill set really matched a pulpit rabbi, because I\nlike to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"switch between different kinds of work a lot. When pulpit rabbis have\nlike a very large profile of the kind of work they do. I'm musical and I love\nleading services, and for a lot of like small congregations, having a rabbi that\ncan also do that is . . . it just seems like that that lined up. Towards the end\nof rabbinical school, I went through what we call placement, which is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when the\nrabbinical school basically matches you up with a bunch of congregations looking\nfor new rabbis and interviewed at a bunch of places. Around the same time or . .\n. maybe like my fourth year of rabbinical school, I heard about this rabbi,\nLauren Henderson, who is trying to start a new community in Atlanta. My dad had\nmet her and she now lives in Atlanta and works as the head rabbi ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at Congregation\nOr Hadash. But she . . . had worked at Mishkan Chicago . . . which is part of\nthe Emergent Jewish Network and was looking to Atlanta to start something. I\ntalked to her and looked at some of her research in which she sort of helped get\nthe ball rolling on the fact that Atlanta really was ripe for an alternative\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community to be founded here. While it didn't pan out for her for a number of\nreasons, mostly financial reasons. It kind of fueled a little bit of me thinking\nabout whether something new could be created here because my parents lived here.\nI met my now husband, Jon, who's from Atlanta, and he really wanted to move back\nto Atlanta. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had a kid while I was in rabbinical school, so moving somewhere\nwith our parents was very attractive. I also really liked Atlanta when I was in\ncollege. I think it's a great city. There was a lot of pulling us back here.\n\nFISHMAN: I want to spend some time talking about the community that you're\nbuilding, Ma'alot. Will you tell me sort of how this idea came to be and explain\nwhat it is?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WOLPE: After rabbinical school, I was talking to some synagogues here about\nmaybe becoming assistant rabbis at positions. But nothing felt like a great fit.\nInstead, I did a yearlong residency in Philadelphia through Hadar's Rising Song\nInstitute, in which I did a deep dive into Jewish music for the year. That was\nthe time when I really started conceiving of Ma'alot. 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Creating accessible programs that feel very . . . that tap\ninto a deeply authentic. What I like to say [it's] like a heimish, a very Jewish feel.\n\nFISHMAN: At what point . . . during the pandemic, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did you move here or was it\nright before or was it during?\n\nWOLPE: I came up with Ma'alot, and then the pandemic started while I was in\nPhiladelphia. Then we moved here four months later. I think it sort of delayed\nthe building of the organization for a year, but it was a very powerful time to\nget it started because the beginning of Ma'alot was me just conducting one on\nones. 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That kind of\nshaped how I thought about some of the needs and some of the kinds of\nprogramming that we should offer.\n\nFISHMAN: Do you find that people's needs have sort of shifted during that time?\nAre more people seeking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community or hesitant to join or kind of a mix? What did\nyou discover?\n\nWOLPE: It's interesting. I think it's a mix. As I'm sure you know, a lot of\nsynagogues lost interest in membership. A lot of them lost membership and a lot\nof them just lost in-person. They started zooming and they never went back to\nshowing up in person. 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I guess it's been a mix,\nbut since COVID's sort of \"over\" . . . in a lot of people's experiences, there's\ndefinitely felt like a transition into more stability, more reliable attendance,\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more kind of . . . part of that is just Ma'alot's almost three years old\nnow, more trust and consistent support of the community.\n\nFISHMAN: To sort of wrap this up, what are your hopes for Ma'alot in the future\nand the Jewish community in Atlanta more generally? Where do you hope it's going\nto go?\n\nWOLPE: Yes. 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Also just modeling for\nestablished institutions what are some different ways of engaging Jews and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those\ninterested or connected to Judaism in Atlanta that is nourishing and sustainable\nfor everyone.\n\nFISHMAN: Beautiful. Thank you so much. Those were all of my questions. Do you\nhave anything else you'd like to add? 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I think, how\ncould I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"possibly think to do something like this? I, very quickly, am reassured\nand emboldened by the incredible colleagues that I have across the country doing\nbeautiful, creative stuff in Jewish life. I'm just really grateful to be a part\nof this time in Jewish history.\n\nFISHMAN: That's great. That's really well said. What you're doing is wonderful.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/transcript/42790/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As a participant, I personally feel grateful for what you're doing. Thank you so much.\n\nWOLPE: I'm grateful you're part of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1470.0,1500.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/annotation_set/1032","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/annotation_set/1032/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust. This interview of Perry Brickman is one of those transcripts.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/annotation_set/1032/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) is an association of institutions and individuals committed to enriching American and Jewish culture and enhancing the value of Jewish museums to their communities. CAJM offers programs, networking, and learning opportunities to the Jewish-museum field, and highlights issues pertaining to the presentation of Jewish culture. It is the leading forum for Jewish museums in North America and reaches colleagues in other countries as well.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/annotation_set/1032/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCasey Fishman is the Archivist and Director of the Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for the Southern Jewish History at The William Breman Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. She previously worked at The Jewish Museum in New York, the Boston’s Carter School and the Archives of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. 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Our first Hanukkah hike, we've done one since then. In which, on the last night of Hanukkah, we hike to the top of a mountain and we lit all our hanukiah at the top and celebrated the holiday of lights with singing and a drum circle and watching the sunset. 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I don't want to lose that second piece. My vision is really about creating a spiritual community that's rooted in deep relationships, compassionate, authentic relationships where people of all backgrounds feel included them.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1212.0,1332.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/index/53054/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta, Georgia","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ma'alot","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1212.0,1332.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/index/53054/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Excitement for the future","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255#t=1332.0,1479.392"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/90110/file/186255/index/53054/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'll just say, I think it's a really exciting time to be a Jewish professional and there is a shift happening in the Jewish world. 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