Over the years, I've worshiped in many places, the most memorable being in the hills of North Georgia, at Camp Coleman. My children attended Coleman - our regional URJ camp - but I never had the opportunity to go to a Jewish camp when I was growing up.
This week's Torah portion is Parashat T'rumah, Exodus 25:1-27:19, which gives specific instructions for the building of the Mishkan, also known as the Tabernacle.
Parashat Miketz is one of the great dream stories in the Torah. Joseph, falsely imprisoned, goes from prisoner to a position of power in Pharaoh’s court because of his ability to interpret dreams. In interpreting dreams, Joseph was connecting the reality of what was to his vision of what could be. I imagine that Carrie O. Simon might have dreamed of all that the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (NFTS, now WRJ) could become when it first began in 1913. In that way, we are the Josephs of our day as we interpret the dreams of just what WRJ might be like in the next one hundred years.