(Charles) Ben Volman:  

Hi, thanks for dropping by--I truly hope you're keeping well in these difficult times. On top of everything else, many of my dear friends from York Memo are feeling the loss of our old high school in a devastating fire. I'll truly miss those very special haunts where I met so many people who changed my life. But the memories are still there: indelible, unerasable--a very special place in the heart. My life hadn't changed for quite awhile, but like you, the Covid crisis has changed everything. Some major changes in my ministry situation led me to realize that it was time to retire from the organization that I've worked with for the past 14 years. I no longer serve as a Messianic rabbi and will miss my many friends in the congregation that we founded in 2009. I am now slowly letting go after years of persistent weekly deadlines. (I'll still work with other national and international organizations.) I have spent the past year in a doctoral program at McMaster Divinity College. As I write these words, my heart goes out to you. We probably wouldn't recognize each other in a crowd these days--my beard is pretty white and whatever's left on top is getting th...Expand for more