Bio Charlie Rosenblum
Charlie Rosenblum grew up in post-World War II Worcester, Massachusetts in a second-generation immigrant Jewish family. It was a mixed marriage: Orthodox on his mother’s side and Zionist-Socialist on his father’s, and the arguments, er, discussions, at large family gatherings brought out a full range of Ashkenazi Jewish thought and culture. After high school, Charlie moved to Portland. Oregon to attend college, and spent the late 60’s and early 70’s exploring New Left politics, hippie communes, and Eastern religions, yet followed his father into the accounting profession and organic farming, practicing as a CPA in Portland for over 40 years, and raising a family on a small farmstead. While never having left Judaism, Charlie returned to a more active practice 25 years ago. He is a recent graduate of Rabbi David and Maggidah Debra Zaslow’s Maggid Training Program.
PS: He makes a gefilte fish you could die for.