{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/qb9v11wc51/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Miller, Rabbis Max and Rachael Klein"]},"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\u003eRabbi Max Miller and Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller were interviewed by Sandra Berman on December 3, 2021.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eBiographical Sketch – Max Miller\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMax Reuben Miller was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1989 and moved to suburban Atlanta just after the 1996 Olympics. He attended Jewish day school from fifth through twelfth grade at the Davis Academy and The Weber School and has lived in Johns Creek for most of his life. Max was heavily influenced to become a rabbi by his childhood rabbi Julie Schwartz and the headmaster of The Weber School, Sim Pearl.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a bachelor’s degree in arts and Humanities. At the University of Maryland, Rabbi max majored in Jewish Studies and focused on Israeli history, modern Hebrew, and the modern Jewish experience. He also joined the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi while at the University of Maryland. Rabbi Max continued his education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at both the Jerusalem and Cincinnati campuses. He graduated with a master’s in Hebrew Letters in 2016 and was ordained by HUC in May of 2017. Rabbi Max also received a master’s concentration in Israel Education from The iCenter: For Israel Education in Chicago, Illinois. He served as the student rabbi to congregations in Kokomo, Indiana, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, Sylvania, Ohio, and Isaac M. Wise Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max met his wife and fellow Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller at HUC in Jerusalem. When it came time to move back to the states, the couple decided to attend HUC in Cincinnati together. After being ordained as rabbis, Rachael and Max moved to Atlanta where they became rabbis at Temple Emanu-El in 2017. The pair are now Associate Rabbis at Emanu-El and have a daughter named Zohara together.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBiographical Sketch – Rachael Klein Miller\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRachael Aryn Klein was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1990 and raised in Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. Rachael grew up attending The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah. She first attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on a soccer scholarship, but transferred to University of Missouri Kansas City, where she decided she wanted to major in Jewish Studies and work in the Jewish world. This decision led her to attend the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Jewish Studies. Rabbi Rachael continued her education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, Israel and Cincinnati, Ohio, where she received a master’s of Hebrew Letters and was ordained in 2017. She also received a master’s concentration in Israel Education from The iCenter for Israel Education in Chicago, Illinois.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring her years at HUC, Rabbi Rachael worked in congregations as a student rabbi in Rapid City, South Dakota, Sandusky, Ohio, Seminole, Oklahoma, and the I. M. Wise Temple in Cincinnati.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Rachael met her husband and fellow Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Max Miller at HUC in Jerusalem. When it came time to move back to the States, the couple decided to attend HUC in Cincinnati together. After being ordained as rabbis, Rachael and Max moved to Atlanta where they became rabbis at Temple Emanu-El in 2017. The pair are now Associate Rabbis at Emanu-El and have a daughter named Zohara together.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Rabbis Max and Rachael sharing where they were born and how they ended up in Atlanta, Georgia. Rabbi Max shares how he grew up in Atlanta and attended Jewish day schools from fifth through twelfth grade. He shares more about his Davis Academy experience and about who inspired him to become a rabbi. Rabbi Rachael shares about growing up in Kansas City and at The Temple, Congregation B’nai Yehudah. She talks about the different colleges she attended and how she ultimately decided to major in Jewish studies at the American Jewish University. Rabbi Rachael recalls how looking back, she first knew she was on a spiritual journey when she felt a sense of Godly-ness in a sunny spot of her childhood home.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Rachael talks about how she and Rabbi Max first met at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem thanks to the school’s Facebook group. The couple then go on to talk about how they decided to transfer to HUC’s Cincinnati campus together. Both rabbis share about their currently roles as Associate Rabbis at Temple Emanu-El in Sandy Springs, Georgia. They recall how difficult it was to find jobs at the same synagogue and what their strategy was when looking for jobs in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview moves on to discuss how COVID-19 impacted the Miller family, Temple Emanu-El, and the Emanu-El congregation. Rabbi Rachael touches on how the pandemic has shifted her relationship with Judaism and how they had to try to connect with their congregants through online services in a way they had not had to before the pandemic. She shares how she and Rabbi Max had to come up with new ways to connect with and the teach the congregation and their youth members. Rabbi Max shares that one of the most difficult things they had to figure out during the pandemic was how to connect with their congregants on a meaningful level through Zoom. They discussed how each staff member of Temple Emanu-El made a point to call their congregants and check in with them for 14 months during the pandemic. The rabbis mentioned how a lot of those calls would turn into virtual pastoral care visits, especially for the older and more isolated members of the Emanu-El community.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbis Max and Rachael go on to talk about the different stages of COVID and how they had to adjust their programming and events accordingly. They discuss how they turned Emanu-El’s religious school into online schooling and eventually converted it into an outdoor school where the community could meet safely in person in an outdoor setting.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max shares that because of the pandemic, he now feels more connected to the global Jewish community and identifies more as a global Jew rather than just the Temple Emanu-El Jew he felt like in the past. Rabbi Rachael reflects on how her Jewish identity has changed as a result of the pandemic and how she is now unapologetically Jewish. She talks about how the rise in anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment has made the Emanu-El community and staff had to gather under unique circumstances to figure out an effective response. Rabbi Max recalls an instance from 2017 when he experienced anti-Semitism in a Costco parking lot. Rabbi Rachael spoke about how the kids in their congregation have to deal with micro-aggressions and even outright anti-Semitism. She mentions that they have kids who attend Centennial High School and other Cobb County schools where swastikas and “Heil Hitler” messages have been painted on the campuses.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe rabbis detail what they were doing when they realized the Coronavirus was serious and discussed how the lockdown and pandemic impacted their daily routines. Rabbi Rachael shares that she was pregnant during the pandemic and gave birth to their daughter, Zohara, in May 2020. She discusses how the pandemic impacted everything about the birth and how nothing happened the way they had expected it to. They shared about their daughter’s rare heart defect and how they had to navigate getting her heart repaired in the midst of COVID. They discuss how their friends, family, and congregation were willing to help them in safe ways during that time. They also discussed how they managed family visits from their parents during the pandemic while Zohara was still a baby.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max discusses how the pandemic affected their 2020 Passover seder and how everyone really enjoyed what they came up with for the seder. Rabbi Rachael shares how the pandemic affected their congregants, noting that a lot of the families said they are attending Shabbat services more than ever thanks to them being online. They discuss vaccinations and how the Temple does not require them, but that they had separate High Holy Day services for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Rabbis Max and Rachael reflect on friends and family members who caught COVID and how they sought counseling from the rabbis when they were scared about what it meant for them.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview shifts from focusing on COVID to focusing on social justice during the pandemic. Rabbi Rachael and Rabbi Max recall how they first heard about George Floyd’s murder while they were in the hospital giving birth to Zohara. They discuss how Temple Emanu-El is a proud Zionist congregation and how a lot of the congregation’s focus is on making statements about anti-Semitism and anti-Israel Sentiment. Rabbi Rachael noted that while no one in their congregation was okay with what happened, there was not congregation wide involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement. Rabbi Max discusses how they incorporate political topics into their sermons as long as they relate back to Jewish texts and how they have to be careful which topics they approach with the congregation. The rabbis also shared how the conversations surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement affected their congregation and how they feel they talk about it in conjunction with anti-Semitism issues.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThey discussed how their roles as rabbis has evolving since they first became rabbis. Rabbi Rachael shares that she is not the congregation’s social justice rabbi and that she instead serves her community by nurturing the spiritual life of children. Rabbi Max recollects how his rabbinate has become one of focusing on anti-Semitism and Jewish identity when he thought it would be focused more on social justice. Rabbi Rachael also reflects on when she heard about the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Rachael goes on to talk about how they address anti-Semitism and bullying with the children in their congregation. Both rabbis share what gives them hope to get through the difficult times. They share what positive changes in their lives and their community they believe will persist after the pandemic and they reflect on the mobile Hanukkah celebration they created during the pandemic. The rabbis also share what their message to future generations is.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max sharing about friends and connections they would not have made if it weren’t for the pandemic and how some of their congregants are struggling with reacclimating to social life once the lockdown was lifted. They talk about their experience with reopening in person religious school and how a lot of the children were reluctant to leave their parents. They also talk about the recent school shooting in Michigan and how gun violence in schools negatively impacts the congregation’s children.\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":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2021-12-03 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta","Collecting These Times"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Rabbi Max Miller (personal name)","Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller (personal name)","Rabbi Julie Schwartz (personal name)","Rabbi Spike Anderson (personal name)","Dr. Simcha Pearl (personal name)","George Floyd (personal name)","Doris and Alex Weber Jewish Community High School (The Weber School) (corporate name)","Alfred and Adele Davis Academy (corporate name)","Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) (corporate name)","Temple Emanu-El (corporate name)","The Temple, Congregation B'nai Jehudah (corporate name)","Boston Children's Hospital (corporate name)","Black Lives Matter (corporate name)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Cincinnati, Ohio (geographic term)","Jerusalem, Israel (geographic term)","Anti-Semitism (topical term)","Anti-Israel Sentiment (topical term)","Holocaust (topical term)","Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (topical term)","COVID-19 Pandemic (topical term)","Passover (topical term)","Hanukkah (topical term)","Unite the Right March (Charlottesville, Virginia) (topical term)","Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting (Tree of Life - Or L'Simcha Congregation) (topical term)","Poway Synagogue Shooting (Chabad of Poway) (topical term)","Oxford High School Shooting (Oxford, Michigan) (topical term)","Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting (Parkland, Florida) (topical term)","School Shootings (topical term)","Gun Violence (topical term)","Social Justice (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max Miller and Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller were interviewed by Sandra Berman on December 3, 2021.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical Sketch \u0026ndash; Max Miller\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMax Reuben Miller was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1989 and moved to suburban Atlanta just after the 1996 Olympics. He attended Jewish day school from fifth through twelfth grade at the Davis Academy and The Weber School and has lived in Johns Creek for most of his life. Max was heavily influenced to become a rabbi by his childhood rabbi Julie Schwartz and the headmaster of The Weber School, Sim Pearl.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in arts and Humanities. At the University of Maryland, Rabbi max majored in Jewish Studies and focused on Israeli history, modern Hebrew, and the modern Jewish experience. He also joined the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi while at the University of Maryland. Rabbi Max continued his education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at both the Jerusalem and Cincinnati campuses. He graduated with a master\u0026rsquo;s in Hebrew Letters in 2016 and was ordained by HUC in May of 2017. Rabbi Max also received a master\u0026rsquo;s concentration in Israel Education from The iCenter: For Israel Education in Chicago, Illinois. He served as the student rabbi to congregations in Kokomo, Indiana, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, Sylvania, Ohio, and Isaac M. Wise Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max met his wife and fellow Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller at HUC in Jerusalem. When it came time to move back to the states, the couple decided to attend HUC in Cincinnati together. After being ordained as rabbis, Rachael and Max moved to Atlanta where they became rabbis at Temple Emanu-El in 2017. The pair are now Associate Rabbis at Emanu-El and have a daughter named Zohara together.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBiographical Sketch \u0026ndash; Rachael Klein Miller\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRachael Aryn Klein was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1990 and raised in Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. Rachael grew up attending The Temple, Congregation B\u0026rsquo;nai Jehudah. She first attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on a soccer scholarship, but transferred to University of Missouri Kansas City, where she decided she wanted to major in Jewish Studies and work in the Jewish world. This decision led her to attend the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California, where she graduated with a bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in Jewish Studies. Rabbi Rachael continued her education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, Israel and Cincinnati, Ohio, where she received a master\u0026rsquo;s of Hebrew Letters and was ordained in 2017. She also received a master\u0026rsquo;s concentration in Israel Education from The iCenter for Israel Education in Chicago, Illinois.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring her years at HUC, Rabbi Rachael worked in congregations as a student rabbi in Rapid City, South Dakota, Sandusky, Ohio, Seminole, Oklahoma, and the I. M. Wise Temple in Cincinnati.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Rachael met her husband and fellow Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Max Miller at HUC in Jerusalem. When it came time to move back to the States, the couple decided to attend HUC in Cincinnati together. After being ordained as rabbis, Rachael and Max moved to Atlanta where they became rabbis at Temple Emanu-El in 2017. The pair are now Associate Rabbis at Emanu-El and have a daughter named Zohara together.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Rabbis Max and Rachael sharing where they were born and how they ended up in Atlanta, Georgia. Rabbi Max shares how he grew up in Atlanta and attended Jewish day schools from fifth through twelfth grade. He shares more about his Davis Academy experience and about who inspired him to become a rabbi. Rabbi Rachael shares about growing up in Kansas City and at The Temple, Congregation B\u0026rsquo;nai Yehudah. She talks about the different colleges she attended and how she ultimately decided to major in Jewish studies at the American Jewish University. Rabbi Rachael recalls how looking back, she first knew she was on a spiritual journey when she felt a sense of Godly-ness in a sunny spot of her childhood home.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Rachael talks about how she and Rabbi Max first met at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem thanks to the school\u0026rsquo;s Facebook group. The couple then go on to talk about how they decided to transfer to HUC\u0026rsquo;s Cincinnati campus together. Both rabbis share about their currently roles as Associate Rabbis at Temple Emanu-El in Sandy Springs, Georgia. They recall how difficult it was to find jobs at the same synagogue and what their strategy was when looking for jobs in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview moves on to discuss how COVID-19 impacted the Miller family, Temple Emanu-El, and the Emanu-El congregation. Rabbi Rachael touches on how the pandemic has shifted her relationship with Judaism and how they had to try to connect with their congregants through online services in a way they had not had to before the pandemic. She shares how she and Rabbi Max had to come up with new ways to connect with and the teach the congregation and their youth members. Rabbi Max shares that one of the most difficult things they had to figure out during the pandemic was how to connect with their congregants on a meaningful level through Zoom. They discussed how each staff member of Temple Emanu-El made a point to call their congregants and check in with them for 14 months during the pandemic. The rabbis mentioned how a lot of those calls would turn into virtual pastoral care visits, especially for the older and more isolated members of the Emanu-El community.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbis Max and Rachael go on to talk about the different stages of COVID and how they had to adjust their programming and events accordingly. They discuss how they turned Emanu-El\u0026rsquo;s religious school into online schooling and eventually converted it into an outdoor school where the community could meet safely in person in an outdoor setting.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max shares that because of the pandemic, he now feels more connected to the global Jewish community and identifies more as a global Jew rather than just the Temple Emanu-El Jew he felt like in the past. Rabbi Rachael reflects on how her Jewish identity has changed as a result of the pandemic and how she is now unapologetically Jewish. She talks about how the rise in anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment has made the Emanu-El community and staff had to gather under unique circumstances to figure out an effective response. Rabbi Max recalls an instance from 2017 when he experienced anti-Semitism in a Costco parking lot. Rabbi Rachael spoke about how the kids in their congregation have to deal with micro-aggressions and even outright anti-Semitism. She mentions that they have kids who attend Centennial High School and other Cobb County schools where swastikas and \u0026ldquo;Heil Hitler\u0026rdquo; messages have been painted on the campuses.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe rabbis detail what they were doing when they realized the Coronavirus was serious and discussed how the lockdown and pandemic impacted their daily routines. Rabbi Rachael shares that she was pregnant during the pandemic and gave birth to their daughter, Zohara, in May 2020. She discusses how the pandemic impacted everything about the birth and how nothing happened the way they had expected it to. They shared about their daughter\u0026rsquo;s rare heart defect and how they had to navigate getting her heart repaired in the midst of COVID. They discuss how their friends, family, and congregation were willing to help them in safe ways during that time. They also discussed how they managed family visits from their parents during the pandemic while Zohara was still a baby.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max discusses how the pandemic affected their 2020 Passover seder and how everyone really enjoyed what they came up with for the seder. Rabbi Rachael shares how the pandemic affected their congregants, noting that a lot of the families said they are attending Shabbat services more than ever thanks to them being online. They discuss vaccinations and how the Temple does not require them, but that they had separate High Holy Day services for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Rabbis Max and Rachael reflect on friends and family members who caught COVID and how they sought counseling from the rabbis when they were scared about what it meant for them.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview shifts from focusing on COVID to focusing on social justice during the pandemic. Rabbi Rachael and Rabbi Max recall how they first heard about George Floyd\u0026rsquo;s murder while they were in the hospital giving birth to Zohara. They discuss how Temple Emanu-El is a proud Zionist congregation and how a lot of the congregation\u0026rsquo;s focus is on making statements about anti-Semitism and anti-Israel Sentiment. Rabbi Rachael noted that while no one in their congregation was okay with what happened, there was not congregation wide involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement. Rabbi Max discusses how they incorporate political topics into their sermons as long as they relate back to Jewish texts and how they have to be careful which topics they approach with the congregation. The rabbis also shared how the conversations surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement affected their congregation and how they feel they talk about it in conjunction with anti-Semitism issues.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThey discussed how their roles as rabbis has evolving since they first became rabbis. Rabbi Rachael shares that she is not the congregation\u0026rsquo;s social justice rabbi and that she instead serves her community by nurturing the spiritual life of children. Rabbi Max recollects how his rabbinate has become one of focusing on anti-Semitism and Jewish identity when he thought it would be focused more on social justice. Rabbi Rachael also reflects on when she heard about the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Rachael goes on to talk about how they address anti-Semitism and bullying with the children in their congregation. Both rabbis share what gives them hope to get through the difficult times. They share what positive changes in their lives and their community they believe will persist after the pandemic and they reflect on the mobile Hanukkah celebration they created during the pandemic. The rabbis also share what their message to future generations is.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Max sharing about friends and connections they would not have made if it weren\u0026rsquo;t for the pandemic and how some of their congregants are struggling with reacclimating to social life once the lockdown was lifted. They talk about their experience with reopening in person religious school and how a lot of the children were reluctant to leave their parents. 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The\nBreman Museum is proud to be working with Jewish museums around the country and\nthe Council of American Jewish Museums to record and collect stories in which it\nmeans to be Jewish in the era of COVID-19. This effort ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"represents a collective\napproach to collect stories, preserve, and interpret them, and create a\nfascinating historical record of these times. So, welcome, thank you so much.\nI'd like to start, who wants to be, who wants to speak first?\n\nM. MILLER: Oh, wow. Okay. I'll speak first sure, yeah.\n\nR. MILLER: Our style is usually to alternate.\n\nM. MILLER: That's true.\n\nR. MILLER: Or like whoever has the flow.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nR. MILLER: Is that okay?\n\nBERMAN: We'll alternate then.\n\nM. MILLER: It'll also depend on the question too.\n\nBERMAN: Easy first question.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: Where are you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from and how did you end up in Atlanta [Georgia]?\n\nM. MILLER: That is a longer question, I mean, it's a longer answer than a\nquestion. I am from here, from Atlanta, born in Richmond [Georgia], but I moved\nto Atlanta just after the Olympics. I went to the Davis Academy. I went to the\nWeber School. I grew up at Temple Emanu-El and lived in Johns Creek [Georgia]\nmost of my life. What else was there?\n\nBERMAN: How ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did your family decide to move to Atlanta?\n\nM. MILLER: My dad was transferred from, he worked for an office supply company\nand was transferred to Atlanta to help fix up the office that was here from\nRichmond because he was successful there. So, they made the decision to bring us\nto Atlanta. Actually, we lived in Houston [Texas] for a year and a half and then\nwe came here.\n\nBERMAN: Johns Creek isn't exactly in the heart of the Jewish community. Did you,\nhow was it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being, were you one of many Jews or just . . .?\n\nM. MILLER: Well, I mean, in our neighborhood we had a number of Davis families,\nso it didn't feel like I was that alone. When we started, we lived way north\nAlpharetta [Georgia] like McGinnis Ferry exit and then we moved like south to\nJohns Creek. That was when there were a lot more Jews there, so it never felt\nlike it wasn't a Jewish area. Now we live off of Old Alabama where there's a\nChabad next door and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"three synagogues are not far away and Temple Emanu-El is\nonly a 15-minute drive. So, it's hard to go anywhere in our neighborhood, in our\nneck of the woods, without seeing Jews.\n\nBERMAN: I have so many questions before I move on just about growing up at the\nDavis Academy. What did you, how was your private school Davis Academy experience?\n\nM. MILLER: I loved it. I was the third, it's a bit of a weird statistic, I'm the\nthird ever graduating eighth grade class. They didn't graduate eighth graders\nfor a while. I was the third ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"class, my year we graduated just before the middle\nschool opened so we never got to be in the cool middle school. But I loved\nDavis. It was where, my mom describes it as I came back singing Jewish songs\nafter Fridays and like I just, it was my happy place. I just felt so at home,\nand I loved doing the Judaic studies and I loved the friends that I made. It was awesome.\n\nBERMAN: I went to your website and read ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that your decision to become a rabbi was\ndue to a lot of individuals who inspired you.\n\nM. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nBERMAN: Were they at Davis? Were they later or . . .?\n\nM. MILLER: So, the, tangentially at Davis, Rabbi Julie Schwartz was my rabbi\ngrowing up at Temple Emanu-El and she was and is still my role model of what it\nmeans to be a rabbi. I grew up with her son, Ari ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Balaban, and we were attached\nat the hip, so it was, who's now also a Rabbi, soon to be a PHD. So, we were\nvery, very close, and so I grew up basically in the home of a Rabbi. She was\nvery influential in my life as well as Sim Pearl, who was connected to Davis\nbecause that's where he came to recruit for New Jew, then became Weber. He was\nthe Head of School who got up on all the desks and walked from desk to desk and\ndoing his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whole, I'm sure he did it a million times, his spiel. It was just\nunbelievable to see the Head of School walking on desks and it really inspired\nme. I loved every moment of being at Weber too. It was just like a continuous\nwonderful Jewish community growing up here.\n\nBERMAN: Well, at the end of the interview I'd like to get back to how you ended\nup back at the synagogue --\n\nM. MILLER: That's a story too.\n\nR. MILLER: Yes!\n\nBERMAN: -- of your youth. But now I'd like to turn to Rachael and talk to you a\nlittle bit about your background. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where are you from?\n\nR. MILLER: So, I grew up in Kansas City, born on the Missouri side, raised on\nthe Kansas side. I grew up in the big congregation there, The Congregation,\nTemple B'nai Jehudah, the former Rabbi, that was very important. You have to\nsay, \"The Temple, Congregation B'nai Yehuda.\" That's where I had my baby naming,\nbecome bat mitzvah, was confirmed, had my first Rabbinic internship, so it'll\nalways be a home.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then I read something about the University of Cincinnati or . . .?\n\nR. MILLER: My parents, that has to do with the story of Max and I moving from\nJerusalem [Israel] to Cincinnati to continue our studies. The reason being that\nI was comfortable in Cincinnati is because my family grew up in, at least my\nfather's side of the family, grew up in Cincinnati, and my mother in Ohio. We\nare, my father's line comes from people who came over from Europe and then went\nfrom Ellis Island ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Cincinnati. So, when Cincinnati was a thriving Jewish\ncommunity, that's when my family was growing up there.\n\nBERMAN: So, after Kansas where did you go?\n\nR. MILLER: So, after Kansas I went, not too many Rabbis get to say this, I went\non a Division I soccer scholarship to Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and\nrealized pretty quick I was not going to stay. I made my way back home to kind\nof reset. I went to University of Missouri Kansas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"City for a semester and then I\nknew what I wanted to do, which was to major in Jewish Studies. I wanted to work\nin the Jewish world. Indiana was too big, Brandeis [University] was in the\nnortheast and the American Jewish University was in Bel-Air, California. So,\nthat sounded like a winner, and made my way to Bel-Air.\n\nBERMAN: So now I'm going to, well I did want to ask you, I asked you about your\ninfluences and also, I read on the website that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you were connected, you felt\nsomething bigger, sort of more of a greater kind of . . .\n\nR. MILLER: I know what you're asking, which is that, so I grew up as an only\nchild which meant I spent a lot of time by myself and entertaining myself. At\nthe top of the staircase of my childhood home there was this circular window,\nand the sun would shine in and like a cat I would go over, not crawling like a\ncat, but cats like to be in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"warm sun of the window, and I would sit on the\ncarpet and that was my sacred space. That is where I just felt a sort of\nGodly-ness in the world, and that's when I first had an inkling, when I look\nback, that I was on this sort of spiritual journey.\n\nBERMAN: How did the two of you meet?\n\nR. MILLER: So, we met in Rabbinical school. Part ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the entrance into the Hebrew\nUnion College Jewish Institute of Religion is to, your first year is in Israel\nand before you move everybody joins the Facebook group so that people can figure\nout who they're going to live with and all those sorts of things. And we all\nkind of, you know, check each other out, see who's on there, who do I have\nmutual friends with, that kind of thing. I had zero mutual friends with Max and\nhe kind of had these, he still had the fraternity brother type ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pictures up on\nhis Facebook and all like that. I was like, \"What is this guy doing at\nRabbinical school?\" But I was able to hold back my judgements and just kind of\nmet him on the first day. We started out as friends and then one day he was\ntelling somebody that he was in the kitchen cooking with his girlfriend, and I\nwas like, \"Alright.\"\n\nBERMAN: Is that how you remember it?\n\nM. MILLER: That's pretty close, yeah. I was already, the only differences that I\nwill add was that I was already living in Israel at the time, I was teaching\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"English there. So, for me, I wasn't really looking at the Facebook group, I felt\nlike I was busy. Then I met Rachael because she was hanging out at my\nroommate's, in my apartment already when I got back on the first day, she was\nalready there. She'd made friends with my roommates and so from day one I've\nalways seen her.\n\nBERMAN: So, then you both went to Hebrew Union College. Was that in Cincinnati then?\n\nM. MILLER: We were still at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"HUC-JR in Jerusalem, and then what happens after it\nis you are transferred to either New York, Cincinnati, or LA [Los Angeles,\nCalifornia]. I had chosen Cincinnati because that's where Rabbi Julie Schwartz\nwas, I wanted to be with her, and when Rachael and I were together, we were\ntalking about where we wanted to go. I had never really been to Los Angeles, and\nI didn't realize, I'd been there once or twice, but I didn't realize how nice it\nis. Had I more experience maybe we would've ended up in LA, but then our story\nwould've been totally different. She had family in Cincinnati and so it was an\neasy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"decision for her to ask for the transfer. That's when we decided to both go\nto Cincinnati together.\n\nBERMAN: Before we get into the COVID aspect, a couple more questions. What is\nyour actual role at Temple Emanu-El?\n\nM. MILLER: So, my, at Temple Emanu-El I'm one of the Associate Rabbis, along\nwith Rachael. My role as I like to think of it is I take care of the population\nof Emanu-El that's between 18 and 39 is kind of where ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I focus on most, in\naddition to all the rest of duties at Temple Emanu-El that you would have at any\nother synagogue. But it mostly follows around that, around Israel, and around\neducation of like anti-Semitism and Holocaust, things like that.\n\nBERMAN: And you?\n\nR. MILLER: I am also an Associate Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El. In addition to, we\nall, basically the whole team has, in part of their portfolio, lots of overlap,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and then so in addition to the pastoral care and the lifelong learning and\nleading services, those sorts of things, my specialty is sort of in, I frame it\nas like nurturing the spiritual life of children. I do that through my work in\nthe religious school as well as directing all the youth programing. We also do a\nlot of Israel education together. We also get to lead services together. We have\nour lanes, and then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we have the chance to come together because he'll put\ntogether 20's and 30's programs that I've had nothing to do with, but I get to\nshow up to and have a good time, and I put together these ridiculous youth\nprograms that he then gets to show up to and have a good time. So, it's been a\nnice balance.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: Now was it difficult to find a pulpit together when you were job searching?\n\nR. MILLER: Yes.\n\nM. MILLER: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Was that the main criteria or . . .?\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, so when we were starting the job search, and you'll have your\nown way of explaining this, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we were really concerned because there aren't that,\nthere weren't that many rabbi-rabbi couples or rabbi-cantor couples that are\nworking both at the same synagogue in the same job as full-time jobs which was\nwhat we both wanted. So, we decided that we were going to apply as individuals\nand if one synagogue, we both applied to the same synagogues, if one synagogue\njust wanted one of us, fine, the other one would find a job somewhere else. So,\nwhen we were looking at Atlanta, there was only one job available and I thought\nthat \"Well, if they want Rachael ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then I'll go work maybe at Weber or at Davis,\nor at another synagogue, and if they want me, she'll go work at Weber or Davis\nor another synagogue.\" At the end of the interview, that's when Rabbi Spike\n[Anderson] and the interview committee asked us if we would both consider\nworking at the same synagogue and we said yes.\n\nBERMAN: What a lucky happening for you and great for the Emanu-El community.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: I'm sure.\n\nM. MILLER: Would you explain it differently?\n\nR. MILLER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was good.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah? Alright.\n\nBERMAN: Well, now we are going to get to the main part of this interview which\nare questions relating to the pandemic, which we've all been immersed in for the\nlast, seems like forever, but the last two years.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: So, the first question is describe ways the pandemic has shifted your\nrelationship to being Jewish. What ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"has been most interesting and what has been\nmost difficult? Who wants to go first?\n\nR. MILLER: I'll do it.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nR. MILLER: I feel like my relationship to Judaism throughout the pandemic has\nshifted in the alignment of spiritual innovation that we couldn't show up to a\nsynagogue with seats filled with our congregants, and we had to look into the\ncamera and speak directly to the camera to say our prayers, to share our\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thoughts and our feelings and our take on all of this, to support a community\nthrough it without being able to see them. So, we came up with innovative ways\nto do that from, you know, imagining our camera man, who is a congregant, that\nhe was that embodiment of all our congregants that we were speaking to. In terms\nof youth programming, we came up with new things to be able to do. Just across\nthe board, it was, you know, we would never teach with a slide show, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"typically\nin a class pre-COVID, and now that has affected the fact that the slideshow\nhelped us, we used as a tool for teaching then and it lends itself to thinking\nabout ways to use it today even whether it's a hybrid or an in-person session.\n\nM. MILLER: For me, it was, it's tough because we're a people industry. I mean,\nwe're, the reason why we exist is because we love connecting people and we love\nconnecting them to their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaism. So, when all of a sudden, we have to emote\nthrough a camera to try and reach somebody, to do it through a mask where you\ncan only see their eyes, you have to learn a whole new set of skills to try and\nrelate to people. It was really, really tough at the beginning of thinking,\n\"What does Judaism look like when we can't be in the same room as somebody else,\nwhen we can't pray together, when we can't learn together?\" On Zoom, which is\nterribly challenging for Jews, is only one person can talk at a time. So, how do\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you really have a community if you can't all shout over each other? That was\nprobably one of the most difficult things is figuring out what community, what\nJewish community looks like through a screen, then through a mask, and now\nthrough social distancing, and a combination of all the three together.\n\nR. MILLER: It was also, one of the things that we did to help us through the\npandemic and keep our community connected was that every person on staff, we're\na small team, so not just clergy but our full ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"staff, would, we called everybody\nin the congregation based on like, we did it through age cohorts, so that we\nspoke to or left a voicemail for absolutely everybody at least once a month. We\ndid that for basically like 14 months maybe until it was, until we started going\nback into the building. That really helped to keep the community really\nconnected throughout the pandemic.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: That to me is amazing and a mitzvah ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because I'm sure that there were\ncongregants, especially your elderly congregants that felt very alone during\nthis time period.\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: How did you deal with pandemic depression, anxiety . . .\n\nM. MILLER: Those calls really tended to turn into pastoral care visits because\nwe would hear how somebody was doing, if they were doing okay, if they were\nmanaging, if they were just getting by, or if they were doing great because they\nhad family nearby and they're in the same pod, or however we were doing it 22\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"months ago, that, it would tend to be a pastoral care session. That's how we\nkind of got to connect to people, but it was tough. We also had drive-through\nholidays as a way for people to stay in their car. Then so we could celebrate\nSukkot together, we had a drive-through sukkah or Simchat Torah and carrying out\nthe Torah. Like everything became drive-through just so that we could somehow\ncelebrate with people, even if it was only like the clergy on either side of the\ncar ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and then the driver and their spouse. It was, it got, it was, got creative\nand very, it was just like amazing.\n\nR. MILLER: It's interesting to think about it in those stages. This is giving us\nthe opportunity to reflect, because I almost put it as there was the stage we\nwere on lock-down. There was the stage where we were live from the synagogue but\njust us. There was the stage of things like drive-throughs where it seemed like\nthat was going to be okay and safe. All of this is just in response to what the\nCDC said was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"safe, you know, we still didn't know yet if we could even be\noutside together safely. Then once the vaccinations started and being outside\nsafe was considered really, really safe, that's when --\n\nM. MILLER: The heater started.\n\nR. MILLER: The heater started, yes! We bought eight heaters that are really\nnice, and tents, and we, we haven't even spoken about that! We turned our\nreligious school into an outdoor school. So, we went from in three days creating\nan online ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school, which, as the millennials of the team, we did that. Wouldn't\nnormally be our thing to do but we put us online! So, you've got online school\ntime, you've got outdoor school time. I think there's no going back from outdoor school.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: Oh, that's wonderful. That's really wonderful. So, how do you think your\nJewish identity is evolving or changing as a result of the pandemic?\n\nM. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MILLER: Hmm. I think, one of the big things I feel whenever I'm in, well,\nactually, I should start with this. Whenever I'm outside of Atlanta, that's when\nI feel like there's a larger Jewish world. I feel like when I'm at Temple\nEmanu-El, we have our great community. When we're at Federation we realize, \"Oh,\nthere's a larger city full of Jews,\" but the pandemic sort of changed my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"focus\nthat we aren't just a synagogue or city or region, but we actually have access\nto the entire world of Jewish life and there's greater connection to Jews out\nthere that we didn't know how to tap into, but the pandemic gave us the access\nto tap into that. So, I think I felt more like a global Jew than I have a, just\nlike a Temple Emanu-El Jew.\n\nBERMAN: Rachael?\n\nR. MILLER: What was the question again?\n\nBERMAN: How do you think your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish identity is evolving or changing as a\nresult of the pandemic?\n\nR. MILLER: As a result of the pandemic, I feel that I've become, not that I ever\nreally was, but like unapologetically Jewish. That and, a lot of that has an\nIsrael vibe to it as well because throughout the pandemic we have seen this rise\nin anti-Semitism, which was happening before, and this rise in anti-Israel\nsentiment, which was also happening before, but now it's growing and growing and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"growing during these particular times when we can't gather in a traditional way\nto fight it back. That we're having to gather in these unique circumstances to\nfigure out a response and to get ahead of the response even and to just start\nbuilding teams who are working to show that Temple Emanu-El is here, we are here\nto stay, and we are proud of our Judaism. I feel like Temple Emanu-El is\nspeaking for me in that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I share in those feelings and that goal.\n\nBERMAN: Have you, either of you experienced more than the anti-Semitism or\nanti-Israel rhetoric in the last two years personally?\n\nM. MILLER: Not in the last two years. What I was thinking of, and I think why\nyou were laughing is that having grown up here, my entire life I never once\nexperienced anti-Semitism, from the time we moved in fourth grade, just after\nthe Olympics, to when I left to go to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"college in 2007. When I got back, the\nfirst week that we were back, we moved back to Atlanta to start this job, I was\nin the Dunwoody/Sandy Springs Costco, like the most Jewish place outside of the\nsynagogues --\n\nR. MILLER: The parking lot.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, I was in the parking lot. So, like, you know, you can have a\nminyan at all hours of the day in the Costco parking lot. So, I was there, I was\nwalking to my car, I had a bunch of groceries, and I heard some people driving\nby in a pickup truck that said an anti-Semitic ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"slur that I barely even heard,\nbut I was wearing my kippah because that's what I was accustomed to doing. I\ncouldn't even find them, and I was so like dumbstruck by, just like someone,\nlike a) at Costco and like that Costco and b) that like, I'd never confronted or\nseen that live in person, it was also on videos happening to somebody else. So,\nit was in the last four years that I've had that, but it was shocking. It was,\nlike it was an out of body experience.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Have your congregants called with any of those issues?\n\nR. MILLER: We have a lot of, we do a lot of speaking with our kids, the congre\n-- we call them our kids -- the congregational kids, about the anti-Semitism\nthat they face. Thank God it's not, you know, physical things, but these kids\nare dealing all the time with micro-aggressions and things that are bigger than\nmicro-aggressions. We all know that Centennial had, Centennial High School, had\nswastikas on the outside of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"building really large. Cobb County has had\nproblems with swastikas and \"Heil Hitlers\" and all of these terrible things, and\nthose are our kids. Our kids go to these schools and they're looking to process\nit, understand how somebody could make that choice, and they're looking for\nguidance on what to do.\n\nBERMAN: Okay. Where were you when you realized the Coronavirus is serious?\n\nM. MILLER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hmm. I wonder if this is always going to become a flashbulb moment\nfor, just like 9/11 is. When I was kind of first really thinking about it, it\nwas March 12th, because I guess the world closed on Saturday, right? It was\nMarch 13th or 16th or something?\n\nR. MILLER: I don't remember.\n\nM. MILLER: We had, anyways, we were having Indian food with all of our next\ndoor, our 20s and 30s group, and we were all going to plan out this great spring\nthat we were all going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have into the fall, and it was going to be excellent,\nhad a lot of momentum. We said, \"Okay, Coronavirus is coming. Maybe we'll go\ninto lockdown for a few weeks, but like it's not going to be that big a deal.\"\nThen after about a month, after that Indian food planning dinner is when it kind\nof hit me like, \"Oh, we're going to need to cancel all these events. Life is not\ngoing to look the same for a long time.\"\n\nBERMAN: Then there was the second part of the question, how did it impact your\nroutines? So, if you want to continue that.\n\nR. MILLER: So, yeah, a piece we haven't share yet ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is, so, I gave birth during\nthe pandemic. So, in May of 20, the end of May 2020, our daughter was born. So,\ntherefore just like, rabbi hat off, just being a woman in the hospital, just\nbeing two people in the hospital during COVID was certainly not the thing we\never envisioned. He was the only person who could be in there which was not how\nwe had envisioned it. So, that was its own little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bubble. Three weeks into our\ndaughter's life, we were told she has a very, very rare congenital heart defect.\nFrom there, it was, firstly, we're sitting in this whole place of, \"Thank\ngoodness we're in lockdown because we couldn't do anything anyway,\" because she\nneeded to be sheltered until she was going to have a chance to maybe have her\nheart repaired. So, we spent a lot of time in COVID just trying to figure out\nwhat her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life would be. Thank God we had the chance to go to Boston\n[Massachusetts] and Boston Children's Hospital and she had her heart repaired,\nbut throughout this journey we were balancing the needs of the congregation,\nwe're balancing our physical mental needs, we're balancing her needs. The\npandemic was both, will always be, I think, for everybody they can find the\nblessings and the curses of it. The blessing for us was that we got to be with\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her for her, the entire first year of her life almost that we were at home.\nThank God his mother, Saint Cheryl as we call her, was, and my mother also was\ncoming in every like four to eight weeks, and they were the ones who were caring\nfor her while we were upstairs in our offices --\n\nBERMAN: Zooming.\n\nR. MILLER: Zooming!\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, Zooming.\n\nR. MILLER: Zooming. So, the congregation was with us through it, though. We\nessentially invited the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"world, our world, in to be on the journey with us. I\nthink that helped us in some ways and I think it helped other people in\ndifferent ways.\n\nBERMAN: I'm sure it was even a traumatic experience getting on an airplane with\nyour new little daughter.\n\nR. MILLER: Oh, God bless the angels of Atlanta!\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nR. MILLER: So, we had posted that we were getting ready to go and looking for\nrecommendations and asking about people's experiences flying during the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pandemic. Within two hours of posting, I'll call it an angel, sent us a message\nand said --\n\nM. MILLER: He knows he's an angel.\n\nR. MILLER: He knows he's an angel. \"We're, I'm going to fly you to Boston.\"\n\nBERMAN: Oh, my gosh!\n\nR. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nM. MILLER: He's a commercial pilot and he was on leave because at the time the\nairlines weren't really flying at any kind of capacity. So, he has a small plane\nthat he toys around with and flew us up to Boston.\n\nBERMAN: That's --\n\nR. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What a wonderful --\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah. I think the pandemic let us know how much people, like the\ncapacity to care about others, even if you can't be around them, because people\nwere like dropping off food at our houses, we were talking between screens or\nwindows, and like, just like we felt loved in ways we didn't know was possible.\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm. Everybody asked, \"How can we help?\" and because of COVID it's\nnot like people could hold her so we could go take a nap. So, they brought food,\nand we never said ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"no. We were, being open to help I think saved us in the\npandemic. That they, that the food just kept coming, and that was like the one\nthing that was no longer on our plate. That we didn't have to worry about\nfeeding ourselves. We could do everything else.\n\nM. MILLER: And asking Jews to cook food and feed somebody else was like a very\neasy thing to ask a nice Jewish family to do for you. So, that was also a very\nsuccessful way for our friends and our family to help.\n\nBERMAN: What's your daughter's name?\n\nR. MILLER: Zohara.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Beautiful. And she's doing well?\n\nM. MILLER: Doing well. Her heart's fixed. She's at the preschool in the building\nat Temple Emanu-El, the Schiff Preschool. So, because of COVID we don't get to\nsee her all the time, but we get to be in the same building, and she runs\nthrough the halls. She pretends like, no not pretends, she acts like she owns\nthe place already. Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful. Well, I think you really answered this next question,\nbut I'll ask it just in case there's, you recall something else. What thoughts,\nfeelings, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and experiences do you recall from that stage of the pandemic? That's\nfrom just finding out that it was long-term serious.\n\nR. MILLER: When did we find out it was long-term? Would we say around May? Was\nthat, or was it not really until June?\n\nM. MILLER: I think actually it was before then because that's when everyone was,\nI kind of like, whenever we ran out of Clorox wipes --\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm!\n\nM. MILLER: That's when it felt real. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know when that was, but it was\nprobably April when the great Clorox shortage happened. So, I think around that\ntime was when I really felt like, \"Oh, this is real.\" Then when we were in the\nwashing our groceries phase, then it was like we're just, we felt like we were\nbunkered down and like fighting a real enemy that was just invisible to us.\n\nR. MILLER: Okay and we started in an apartment.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nR. MILLER: We brought Zohara home to an apartment and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we turned the living room\ninto a living room/bedroom/Rabbi's office/synagogue, and I don't even know what\nelse. Oh, and Tot Shabbat space.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nR. MILLER: So, when did it feel real? I think it felt real when we, here's when\nit felt real. The pandemic felt like it wasn't going anywhere when our Executive\nDirector called and said, \"It's time to schedule a time to come into the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"building to take things you need in order to work from home.\" That's when it\nfelt like, \"Oh, yeah, we're not coming in anytime soon.\"\n\nM. MILLER: When I was buying AV equipment to have a good Zoom picture and good\naudio and all that stuff, that's when it felt real too. It was like, when we're\nlike, \"We're going to need to be on Zoom, all this is taking place on Zoom. We\ngot to make sure that we look good and have good signal.\"\n\nBERMAN: You mentioned how much help your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parents were. I know for my own family\nit was nerve wracking. Do I see my grandchildren, don't I see them? Was it hard\nto ask your parents to come? Were you worried that they, you know, could get\nsick? How did you all manage this as a family?\n\nM. MILLER: I think the hardest thing, one thing I wanted to get in front of, the\nhardest thing was actually telling our parents not to come because my mom, who's\nlived in Atlanta most of her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life I guess at this point, but when Rachael was\npregnant and we were living in Atlanta, her expectation was, \"I'm going to be\nthere from day one. I'm going to get to hold my grandchild.\" And telling her\nwhen we were in the hospital for an extra, we had to be there longer because\nRachael was C-section that she can't hold her granddaughter for two or three\nweeks because of everything that was going on crushed her. Like, we had to just\nbe so careful. That was, I feel like, the most difficult thing for our family.\n\nR. MILLER: What stinks is that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we could've. We now know --\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, right!\n\nR. MILLER: -- but we didn't know then. The reason that we asked her to stay away\nfor two weeks was that was the quarantine period. We had just been in the\nhospital. It was to keep her safe. The same thing with my mom, because she had\nto get on a plane. So, I mean, God bless her, she put an N95, she walked into\nthat airport and didn't take it off until she walked out. That's how she came\ninto the house. She ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wore a mask for ten, so she stayed with us for a while\nbecause she had there for ten days she was in a mask. Then she could take the\nmask off and be with her granddaughter, but she would've done anything. Both of\nthem would've.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: How did it affect Pesach and into 2020 for you?\n\nR. MILLER: I actually loved Pesach. It was really fun. The first time, not so\nfun. I mean, it was still fun the second ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time. It, there was nothing cooler than\ndoing, than singing Miriam's Song in the middle of the seder and seeing the\nlittle screens of families like standing up and dancing, like clapping, and you\ncould tell they were singing. It was just a neat way to do Passover.\n\nM. MILLER: We like being creative, if you couldn't tell, so it was fun for us to\nsay like, \"Okay, blank slate. We have to have a seder, we have a haggadah. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What\nneeds to be there, what doesn't? What could be fun? What can we do now that\ncould we do now that we couldn't do otherwise when we were in person?\" So it\nwas, actually I really enjoyed, 2020 seder was great. 2021 yeah, also, was just\nlike, \"Fine. We're still in this, it's not fun.\" I don't know what we're going\nto do this year, but it was, I loved the 2020 seder.\n\nBERMAN: How has the pandemic impacted your life overall? Your Jewish practice?\n\nR. MILLER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hmm.\n\nBERMAN: I think some of these questions are --\n\nM. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nR. MILLER: Right.\n\nBERMAN: Repetitive. So, if you feel --\n\nR. MILLER: Actually, I think I want to answer if I can, I know this isn't about\nthem, but how it affected our congregants, which is that on repeat on those\ntelephone calls, our congregants told us that because of the pandemic, they've\nnever been to so many Shabbat services. That every, you could see it on Facebook\nLive, you know, 100, 140 people were, not people, screens, so households, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were\ntuning into services at the height of the lockdown every single week. They\nreally got into a pattern of it which is a whole other perhaps problem that\nwe're working through now, but it was really cool to know that our congregants\nwere becoming closer to their Judaism. The last piece I'll add to that is I\nthink people were scared. People felt uneasy and when you feel uneasy, one of\nthe places that you go, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"even if you don't consider yourself religious or that\nconnected, you're driven to the synagogue. That synagogue was in their living\nroom, but they still had the chance to hear the familiar melodies and hear what\nwe had to say to try to give hope for the year ahead.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think that that will continue then? Do you think you'll continue\nto do these, besides having, are you back to people coming to synagogue?\n\nM. MILLER: Sort of.\n\nBERMAN: Sort of.\n\nM. MILLER: I mean, yes, people are coming back to the synagogue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now. We still do\noffer online learning and online services.\n\nR. MILLER: We did online services before the pandemic.\n\nM. MILLER: But now it's like actually good. The quality is decent. But we're\nhaving people back in the congregation, with masks outside and inside, or I\nguess, no masks outside, masks inside. We're trying to resume some semblance of\n2019 as much as we can.\n\nBERMAN: What about vaccinations? Do you require your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"congregants to be vaccinated?\n\nM. MILLER: We haven't stepped into that yet.\n\nR. MILLER: No. So, we, for the High Holy Days, we did, we transitioned to, we\nhad three services which is not what we would normally do for our morning\nservice. We had one service where you did have to be fully vaccinated to attend,\nwe had a service where the vaccination status is what it is, and then we had an\noutdoor family service where also, we were outdoors, and by then, thank God, we\nknew that being outside was a lot safer. So, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everybody was masked, and it was\nstill too early for a lot of those kids to be able be vaccinated. So, we tried\nto give people options. Vaccinated --\n\nM. MILLER: Everything else.\n\nR. MILLER: Everything else outside.\n\nBERMAN: Did the everything else make you nervous?\n\nM. MILLER: We were in the outside service.\n\nR. MILLER: So, we were actually, yeah, we actually weren't there, but I would\nnot have been nervous because everybody else was in masks, the amudim, the bimah\nis high and far enough ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"away. So, I did not feel unsafe when we were there for\nthe evening services. Once again, we had the chance to create something from\nscratch, which was our outdoor service.\n\nBERMAN: Did anyone in your own household contract COVID or any close friends?\n\nM. MILLER: Actually, the closest --\n\nR. MILLER: Yes.\n\nM. MILLER: Who caught COVID?\n\nR. MILLER: Well, I can't tell you, we're being recorded.\n\nM. MILLER: Oh, okay.\n\nR. MILLER: But we've had family who have had COVID --\n\nM. MILLER: Yes, okay, yes, no we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have.\n\nR. MILLER: A lot of our closest friends actually have not, thank God.\n\nM. MILLER: Now, it's weird, because when I first thought of the question I was\nlike, \"Oh, no one's had COVID.\" But now, actually people have, in our family,\nhave had COVID. Our close friends' children have had COVID. It's crept in.\n\nBERMAN: How was that affected you, as their friend or family member, and also\nhow did it affect them? Did they seek counseling from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you?\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think they were surprised and there is just\nlike a shock of \"What does this mean?\" and \"Oh, my God, it got to us,\" and like,\n\"Who knows how it happened?\" kind of thing. It was very scary and also like they\nwere in pain from the actual virus itself. So, it's like there were a lot of\ntearful phone calls that were happening because we couldn't be with them. That\nwas tough.\n\nR. MILLER: Right. We didn't have that many congregants, thank God, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who were\nhospitalized due to COVID-19, but we did a lot of pastoral care for folks whose\nsurgeries were delayed, those sorts of things, as well as, we did have a number\nof cases that became hospitalized. So, those folks, they were scared, and we\ntried to be there.\n\nM. MILLER: Yep.\n\nBERMAN: Okay. Now they've asked me to sort of veer off and go into an area about\nsocial justice.\n\nM. MILLER: Okay.\n\nR. MILLER: We saw this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"question.\n\nBERMAN: Did you see this question about George Floyd --\n\nR. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nM. MILLER: Oh, what's actually, that's a very interesting question for us.\n\nBERMAN: -- and the Black Lives Matter protest --\n\nR. MILLER: Oh, I don't know what you're going to say.\n\nBERMAN: I guess for me, I'm curious just to know if your congregation, just like\nthe rest of the United States, is polarized between the, I mean, we're in such a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"polarizing kind of life right now. Something that I don't ever really recall\nseeing that much antagonism toward one another depending on what political party\nyou're in. I guess that comes back even to George Floyd and Black Lives Matter.\nHow have you dealt with all of that within your congregation and with your congregants?\n\nM. MILLER: So, for us, I think it starts personally with George Floyd, because\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"George Floyd was killed on May 28th, I think it was.\n\nR. MILLER: We were in the hospital.\n\nM. MILLER: We were in the hospital, so it was right after, Zohara was born on\nMay 25th. We were in the hospital for seven or eight days, five or six days?\n\nR. MILLER: Like four or five.\n\nM. MILLER: Four of five, I don't know, felt like a long time. Anyways, we were\nin the hospital and so it was, we only experienced George Floyd's killing as\nlike an \"Oh,\" --\n\nR. MILLER: Murder.\n\nM. MILLER: Murder, George Floyd's murder as a result of like, \"Oh, here's the\nheadline on New York Times, oh, wait we have to put it down, something's going\non with the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"baby. Let's take care of the baby.\" So, for us it didn't really hit\nus how serious this was for months and months and months afterwards. Even when I\nwas back at the synagogue and like we were clued into what was going on, we\ndidn't realize how big of a deal it was until the movement to organize Jews and\nto organize coalitions of people of faith together began. So, we kind of felt\nlike we were left behind from the starting line, not out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of anyone's fault, but\njust it was tough for us to engage when we also like at home had so much going on.\n\nR. MILLER: We're also, I mean, we're a proud Zionist congregation and a lot of,\nnobody in our congregation would say that like the systemic murder of black men\nwho are unarmed is okay, like nobody's going to say that, but there has become a\ndivide due to the Black Lives Matter ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"movement, so even the phrase then, because\nof the issues related to Israel and statements on Israel from the movement. So,\nthat right there, that was really I think the main crux of it for a lot of folks\nin the congregation. So, Temple Emanu-El, you know, we weren't formally on the\nfront lines, but we had congregants who were certainly out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there, as I like to\nsay, fighting the good fight.\n\nBERMAN: I know for my own experience of just being at Temple Sinai and then The\nTemple for years, well at Temple Sinai especially, our Rabbis really never got\npolitical from the bimah on High Holy Days. What about at Temple Emanu-El? Is\nthere political conversation or is it pretty much \"Let's stay out of, let's stay\naway from these subjects ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because they're too difficult\"?\n\nM. MILLER: The way that we, our kind of, our guiding principle is if we can\napproach it from the text. So, if there's, when we're talking about Black Lives\nMatter or systemic racism or anything like that, the topic is open for\ndiscussion and for talking about it for sermons as long as we base it from\nJewish texts. That's the way that we approach it. Our congregants respond to\nthat well and it creates discussion. It can be like fiery ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"discussion, but we\nalso choose, we pick and choose very carefully when we talk about politics\nbecause it is divisive.\n\nR. MILLER: That said it all.\n\nBERMAN: Have these conversations and events in your households and within your\ncongregation changed over time? Has it evolved from the beginning? I know you\nmentioned in the beginning it was a murder, but how it's evolved over the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"last,\nyou know, year as far as the Black Lives Matter movement? How you think about it?\n\nM. MILLER: I don't think it's changed that much in our congregation. I don't\nthink it's the central topic because our congregation has become so focused on\nanti-Semitism that it's a \"This is very important, and black lives matter, but\nwe also have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people who are threatening and killing Jews. We need to make sure\nthat we're taking care of our own in house first, and then we can look outwards.\"\n\nR. MILLER: I would say I think it's an \"and\" actually not a \"but,\" that we, one\nof the things that Rabbi Spike, the Senior Rabbi, did when he came here is he\ndrew a circle on a map surrounding Temple Emanu-El, and it was about a\nthree-to-five-mile circle, and said, \"I want to help every person living in this\ncircle. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, any person who lives three to five miles from the synagogue, I want\nto make sure that they're fed. I want to make sure that they have access to the\nthings they need to live a good life.\" And despite our zip code for the\ncongregation, there are people who are hungry in all of those zip codes. So, our\ncongregation, it's not that the Black Lives Matter doesn't speak to us as a\ncongregation, it's just that we've ben really tapped into focusing on some of\nthese other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"initiatives. You know, as an aside, with the Afghani refugees, you\nknow, like we're on the ground getting going for that. So, it's just, I think\nit's a \"Yes, and\" that formally the congregation did not do anything in\nparticular for Black Lives Matter movement, but it doesn't mean we don't care, I guess.\n\nM. MILLER: We also didn't have that much of a demand, I will say. I don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know\nhow many people were calling Rabbi Spike, but we had some congregants who were\ncalling us and saying, \"What is Temple Emanu-El doing?\" And we talked to them,\nbut it wasn't a ground swell of congregants asking us, \"When's Temple Emanu-El\ngoing to do something about this?\" So, we weren't hearing it, we weren't being\nencouraged enough from our congregation to say, \"This needs to be the focus.\"\n\nBERMAN: Years ago, I interviewed Rabbi Epstein, Harry H. Epstein, who was rabbi\nat Ahavath Achim [Synagogue] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for 50 years. He was Rabbi during the Civil Rights\nEra where Rabbi Rothschild was so active and involved, he opted not to be.\nDuring one of his last interviews, he said that that was one of his major\nregrets, that he was more of a congregational rabbi than he was a rabbi for the\ncommunity. How do you see your role as Rabbis?\n\nR. MILLER: I see my role as a rabbi as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"evolving. So, right now, I'm not the\nsocial justice Rabbi. That's not the way that I serve my community right now,\nand to me that's okay. But, you know, there are so many things that we need to\ndo to take the world from where it is to where it needs to be. At every level\nthat we're doing something, I think it matters. So, with my focus being on\nnurturing the spiritual life of children, that's how we raise up a generation of\nreally good kids ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who know how to treat one another so that the next generation\ndoesn't make the same mistakes that are happening now. You know, is that social\njustice? Maybe, but I'm just, I'm not currently in the streets. I think that\nalso has to do with the fact that, you know, we're a suburban congregation. I\nthink that sort of changes the dynamic of things as well.\n\nM. MILLER: For me, everything that's happened in my rabbinate from the very\nbeginning is shaped by ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the march in Charlottesville [Virginia]. When we first\nstarted, the contracts for rabbis begins always on July 1st. So, the neo-Nazis\nwere marching in Charlottesville mid-August of that year, I think, something\nlike that. From then on, it's felt like anti-Semitism has become my rabbinate in\na way that I never expected. I actually I thought that I was going to go in and\nbe somebody who was really passionate about social justice and caring about\nblack lives and that would be the direction my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rabbinate would take. Then since\nCharlottesville, it's all been focused on Jewish identity, Jewish pride, on\nfighting back anti-Semitism, on Israel, and that's just been like, even while\nall this has been taking place with the Black Lives Matter movement and social\njustice causes, I've just seen my focus return to anti-Semitism and Jewish pride\nagain and again.\n\nBERMAN: And the shootings in Pittsburgh, at the synagogue in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pittsburgh, how did\nthat affect your congregants and yourselves?\n\nR. MILLER: Oh, it was gut-wrenching.\n\nM. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nR. MILLER: So, Max and Spike were actually on the bimah when it happened. I'll\nnever forget, this is actually, for me this is definitely a --\n\nM. MILLER: A flashbulb moment?\n\nR. MILLER: A flashbulb moment, which I that Solma, one of our maintenance\nworkers, she came running into my office. I had stayed because we drove one car\nfor the environment, we carpooled. I had been teaching Torah study and then I\nwas going to just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"finish some things in the office while he was leading\nservices. Our maintenance worker comes running in and she holds out her phone to\nme with the headline that there's been a shooting. So, we follow our security\nprotocols and go into a soft lockdown. Then after the service Max and Spike are\nwalking into the office, they're on cloud 9, it was a really lovely service, and\nI just start bawling. I look at Spike and I say, \"There's been, something\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"terrible has happened.\" He said, \"What happened?\" And I tell him. He just, he\nstood there in silence for like four minutes, just shocked.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: Yeah. I think that it all is kind of, been a progression, starting with\nthat and then with Charlottesville. It just keeps getting --\n\nR. MILLER: It was Charlottesville then that.\n\nBERMAN: Oh, was it?\n\nM. MILLER: It was Charlottesville, then that, then Poway [California].\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nR. MILLER: I was going to say then the attacks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on outwardly obvious Jews in New York.\n\nM. MILLER: Yep.\n\nBERMAN: Yeah. I wanted to get back to your involvement with the youth of the congregation.\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nBERMAN: How do you go about explaining to them when they're in a classroom and\nsomeone makes a slur? How do you help them get through, I mean, it's not only\nabout your own identity, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's bullying, it's the whole atmosphere about your own\nidentity? So, how do you address that with the young people?\n\nR. MILLER: Yeah, so, it's, you come at it from lots of angles. That, one is just\nat the ground level, building confidence in these kids, and putting them in\nsituations where they can thrive and feel really good about themselves, because\nthat's going to lend itself towards all the other things we're going to ask them\nto do, which is every single ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time to evaluate what is going to be the right\nthing to do. You know, in the moment, is it a friend in a circle who makes an\noffhand Jewish joke, and that the response is, \"Not cool.\" Like, we teach them\njust say whatever simple phrase makes it very clear that what just happened\nisn't okay. So, even \"That's not okay.\" But if they don't have that foundational\nconfidence, they'll never say ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. So, we work on building that while teaching\nthem, \"These are the things that you say, this is the person that you talk to at\nyour school, your parent.\" Every single kid at Temple Emanu-El has our phone\nnumbers. So, they know that they have resources to go to if something happens,\nand they didn't know how to react, and they know it needs a response.\n\nM. MILLER: Sometimes we have to tell them, there's always a few times a year\nwhere something anti-Semitic will take place and we say, like review, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Have in\nthe past year, have you experienced direct anti-Semitism.\" And they'll say, \"Oh,\nwell, no. So and so made a Holocaust joke or someone said something offhand, but\nI didn't really do anything about it. It didn't seem like a big deal.\" We have\nto end up stopping ourselves and stopping them and saying, \"That's not normal\nand that's not okay. Here's why and here's what we need to do the next time.\"\nThen it also ends up us engaging with the schools and with the institutions\nmaking sure that we're educating them, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's really about empowering the kids --\n\nR. MILLER: And the parents.\n\nM. MILLER: And the parents to say something. To remind themselves that even an\noffhand comment can lead to something more serious because it gives permission\nfor worse and worse comments to be made and then, God forbid, violence.\n\nBERMAN: That's, it must be, I mean, I think it's difficult, I mean, to, in this\nenvironment that we're living in today. I think it's always been difficult as a\nparent, you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know, as a grandparent, whatever, I think it's always, but I think\nit's gotten, but like you said, after Charlottesville it's been different. What\ngives you hope through these difficult times?\n\nM. MILLER: Zohara. Honestly, it's hard to not look in the face of an\n18-month-old and have a lot of hope that she is, Zohara means \"bright light,\"\nand she really is, for us, for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me, for us, a very bright light in our lives and\nthat really gives us a lot of hope. Just to be able to see her and how she loves\nto bless the Shabbat candles and she also somehow thinks this is how we bless\nHanukkah candles too. But it's seeing the little kids, I think that's what gives\nme the most hope. All of our kids, all the kids at the synagogue are\ninspirations in many different ways, but it's the little ones that, they still\ngrow up the same way. Like year after year, you still have these awesome little\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kids who are still like carefree and laughing and growing up just the way that\nthey should. It's like keeping that around as long as possible.\n\nR. MILLER: I have hope because of our teens, in addition to this. I have hope\nbecause our teens are go-getters. You know, sometimes older generations are\nlike, \"Oh, kids these days,\" and we're like, \"Yeah! Kids these days!\" Like, yes,\nthey're on their phone, but you know what they're doing on their phone? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They're\nlearning! They're finding ways to engage in topics, just in a different way.\nThey really, they know they're powerful and that they're the next generation.\nThey're definitely way more civically engaged than I certainly was at their age,\nand that's been really powerful to watch.\n\nBERMAN: What positive changes in your life and in your community do you think\nwill persist after the pandemic?\n\nR. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MILLER: One, since it's Hanukkah, one of the things that we said after the\nfirst year of it that would persist after the pandemic is our menorah mobile.\nSo, we drive around with a four-foot menorah, six-foot? With a six-foot menorah\nin the back of a pickup truck and we go to, we have like a map of where\neverybody, we know where everybody lives, and we've picked out the most\npopulated neighborhoods or ones that are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"close to other people, and every night\nof Hanukkah we're lighting Hanukkah lights in a neighborhood.\n\nBERMAN: That's cool.\n\nR. MILLER: And, you know, the first year, people had to stand in, we set it up\nwhere you had to wear a mask, you had to stand in a hula hoop to like have your\nsocial distancing space happening. This year it's been much nicer that you don't\nhave to have a mask on if you don't want to, you don't need to stand in a hula\nhoop. But we will continue this for a while.\n\nBERMAN: I hope you took a photograph of that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and give, you need to give it to\nthe Archives because that, in my mind, people in hula hoops in masks lighting\nthe candles, that's a photograph that needs to be --\n\nM. MILLER: I'm sure we have that.\n\nBERMAN: -- preserved in the Archives. We have to, Lindsay remind me --\n\nM. MILLER: I'm sure we have that.\n\nR. MILLER: We definitely have a picture of him in his Hanukkah onesie on top of\nthe truck for Hanukkah.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure we have people with the hula hoops because that\nwas a huge part of the set up was making ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sure we had enough hula hoops so that\neveryone could have their spacing.\n\nBERMAN: That's great.\n\nM. MILLER: I think outdoor school also, like one of the other things is like\nrealizing that we don't need to be indoors. Like Jewish learning can take place\nanywhere. That's the other big thing. To utilize the space around us and like,\nthe synagogue doesn't just have to be, our building is lovely, it's wonderful,\nbut like we can be Jewish in a lot of different places. Kind of like the mobile\nmenorah, but I think about it as Sunday school takes place outside and like, why\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not sit outside? Who's going to be upset that they have a little dirt on their\nlegs because they're sitting on the ground while learning about some Jewish thing?\n\nR. MILLER: I mean, kids should be running in the field anyway until like fourth\ngrade, so, at least they're outside.\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, exactly.\n\nBERMAN: That's great. If you could share any message with future generations,\nwhat would they be? That's a big one.\n\nM. MILLER: That's just a small little question!\n\nR. MILLER: Just a small question!\n\nBERMAN: A small little question! That's mine.\n\nM. MILLER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah.\n\nR. MILLER: If I could share anything with the next generation, it would be to\nalways hold onto the text, to love your neighbor as yourself. That if we're\ndoing that, we're going to make the world a little better.\n\nBERMAN: Top that!\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, I know. So, on the wall of the synagogue, when we were doing\nall these renovations to the lobby and to other spaces, there was a quote that\nthey needed to have on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wall. It's my favorite quote and it's from Talmud.\nIt's about Honi the circle maker. It's about how he confronts somebody who is\nplanting a carob tree in their garden, in their orchard, and says, \"Why are you\nplanting this tree? Don't you know how long it take to bear fruit?\" He goes to\nsleep for 70 years, has quite the nap, wakes up and sees the grandchild of that\nplanter harvesting the fruit from that tree. I don't know why it's a carob tree\nbecause carob is awful and a terrible, terrible thing to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eat, but what I would\ntell future generations is to always think about what you're planting for the\nnext generation. The world that we're creating now is what our grandchildren are\ngoing to inherit, and we should be considering the seeds that we're sowing now.\n\nBERMAN: That was wonderful. On that note, unless you would like to add anything\nbefore we conclude about something that we may have missed?\n\nM. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MILLER: Do we have any stories that we wanted to include?\n\nBERMAN: Any particular congregant that you want to talk about? I mean, not to\nmention names but coming to you with --\n\nR. MILLER: Oh, I was going to say can't name any congregants because then\neverybody will be offended if they weren't named.\n\nBERMAN: No, no, but if there's a specific, you know, moment during the pandemic\nwhere --\n\nM. MILLER: Oh! I have . . . Amy.\n\nR. MILLER: Trader Joe's?\n\nM. MILLER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah. Okay, so another very Jewish place, at Trader Joe's off Roswell\nRoad, we go there at the same time every week. Monday's at 11:01 is when we walk\nin after, it used to be after our JCC [Marcus Jewish Community Center of\nAtlanta] work out class. We would see the same person there every week. We would\ntalk and we got to know each other. We exchanged phone numbers. She saw Rachael\nwhen Rachael got pregnant. She just became a part of our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"circle. So, eventually,\nRachael stopped coming to Trader Joe's and I would be the one to go alone\nbecause it was COVID, and I was wearing a mask, and only one of us could go. So,\nRachael, we said Amy? Yeah, so, Amy would start asking about Rachael, why she\nwasn't there and how she was doing. It started to be like she would give me\nflowers to take home to Rachael so that she would know that Amy is still\nthinking of her, or like she would ask me, \"What's Rachael's favorite\nchocolate?\" and give us a little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"extra to put in the bag as a little gift. It\nwas like this little, those little moments of just people caring. That was a\nreally, really wonderful part of the pandemic that I don't think would have\nhappened otherwise.\n\nBERMAN: I do have one other question, I know from just my community, my own\nfriends, some people had a hard time readjusting or reacclimating to socializing\nagain. Have you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"found that that has been a problem with members of your\ncongregation? They've become, they were so isolated and now they just don't know\nhow to begin again?\n\nR. MILLER: I mean, we still have congregants who are isolating, who are not\ncoming to things. Those, it's mostly in the older demographic, but what we are\ndealing with a lot is anxiety in kids and trauma, truly, that we have all\nexperienced a communal ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"trauma and how to help these kids work through the trauma\nhas become a big part of what we do. You know, these kids being really attached\nto the parents, not wanting the parents to go. It's, religious school was a\nlittle rough at the beginning with that.\n\nM. MILLER: The first day of religious school was awful. It was like the first --\n\nR. MILLER: Oh, it was good.\n\nM. MILLER: No, no, it was because it was like the first day of preschool where\neveryone is like crying because they don't want to leave their parents. It was,\nlike everyone was happy because, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, we were back in person this year, but\nthere were a lot of kids, the younger ones especially, who were very clingy to\nmom and dad because they didn't want to leave them after 18 months of being in\nthe same house and never leaving each other's side. To suddenly say, to go back\nto something normal was scary for a lot of them.\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nM. MILLER: That was rough.\n\nBERMAN: What about the school shootings like the one we had yesterday? I mean,\nis that, was it yesterday or the day before?\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: Yesterday? The day before?\n\nM. MILLER: Two, day before ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yeah.\n\nBERMAN: How do you help, I mean, it's probably more the teenagers who have angst\nabout that. They hear about it when they go to their own schools, I mean, is\nthat --\n\nR. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: -- something that you address also?\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm. After the . . .\n\nM. MILLER: Parks?\n\nR. MILLER: Parkland, yeah, after the Parkland shooting, we did have a gun\nviolence prevention sort of cohort come up. There was a big seminar for I guess\nprobably seventh or eighth graders and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"above to help them to process and to be\nable to speak to us. That's actually when a lot of them got our phone numbers,\nwhich was, we, you know, looked at them and said, \"You have a safe adult, you\nknow safe adults that you can turn to if, God forbid, you're the one who is\nthinking the bad things, or if you just don't know what to do anymore because of\nyour feelings surrounding school shootings.\" I think the pandemic actually\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"helped the kids kind of forget about it for a while. Unfortunately, this latest\nshooting, I hope they're not apathetic to it on the one hand, and I hope that,\nyou know, it's not retriggering all of those fears.\n\nM. MILLER: My worry is that it's triggering, is that this is going to be a very\ntriggering moment because there hasn't been, maybe there was one other school\nshooting over the last, major school shooting over the last 20 something months.\n\nBERMAN: It's been such a calm period as far as --\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah.\n\nBERMAN: -- that goes because no one's been in school and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now . . .\n\nM. MILLER: Yeah, I'm afraid that this is going to, because we had kids who were\ngoing, who were telling us that they go to school every day thinking, \"This\ncould be my last day.\" That was like in the weeks and months after Parkland,\nthat's what they were saying. That was frightening. Like, when we heard kids\nwith that kind of mentality, so, maybe the pandemic helped them heal a little\nbit just to kind of put some stuff away until they can have appropriate talk\ntherapy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/transcript/34989/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was scary.\n\nR. MILLER: Mhm.\n\nBERMAN: Well, on that note, I really want to thank you both. This has been a\nreal pleasure. It was the first one we've done for the Council of American\nJewish Museums, and I know it will be one of the best because you two have been\nwonderful. You were great.\n\nR. MILLER: Thank you.\n\nM. MILLER: Thanks.\n\nBERMAN: So, thank you and we'll unclip you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756#t=3870.0,3900.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/annotation_set/600","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/57870/file/131756/annotation_set/600/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Rachael Klein Miller is an Associate Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Sandy Springs, Georgia. 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