Beth El celebrates new rabbi
Rabbi Joshua Boettiger...will be welcomed to the community in a ceremony beginning at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Bennington Museum.
...Boettiger said he appreciated being able to come into a community where the rabbi has been so well-regarded. However, he also said it was a little intimidating to follow a man who had served as rabbi for 12 years in his first pastorate.
...Boettiger, 33, is originally from the area of Amherst, Mass., but spent several years growing up in Northern California. He lives in Shaftsbury with his partner, Vanessa Grajwer, who is studying to be a rabbi...He graduated from Bard College in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., in 1996 and went on to a six-year program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. He graduated last year, about two months before coming back to Bennington.
...While he said it was not part of his daily life growing up, Boettiger said he was proud of his family's ties to American history. On his father's side, Boettiger is the great-grandson of President Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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