1929-2000 | Her Life and Legacy
This morning we went to Beth El Synagogue. [Our cousin] Ori Epstein was called to the Torah for his Bar Mitzvah. It was the second day Succoth and a lovely part of the service was that they had about 30 sets of lulav and etrog and invited all the attendees to take turns going up to the bima to wave lulav. I really loved that because I never did it myself before. Always just watched the rabbi or cantor do it alone. Wouldn’t it be great to have the lulav-etrog concession?
[note by Lisa]
In the early 1970s, just as Bernice’s children were nearing college age, Bernice decided to pursue a degree in Comparative Religion & Biblical Studies at Trinity College in Hartford. Since the school did not have an MA program, Bernice earned a second BA degree. Fortunately, Trinity gave her credit for courses she’d taken at Syracuse University two decades earlier. So her courseload (and tuition) at Trinity was devoted exclusively to her major track.
Her senior essay was entititled: Torah and Christ: A Comparison of Rabbinic Jewish and Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible.