Temple Israel Senior Rabbi David M. Sofian reflects on his retirement By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Rabbi David M. Sofian takes confirmation seriously. His goal, he says, is to challenge teens to think of themselves as Jewish adults. “I want them to give up a kind of

By Rabbi David M. Sofian, Temple Israel, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer As you are reading this, once again I am studying in a program designed especially for rabbis, at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. This is an opportunity that I greatly look forward to every summer because it