Want to spend Shabbat on the shores of a pristine wilderness lake? Bake challah in a dutch oven? Daven with birds singing along? Combine your love of Judaism with adventure travel in stunningly beautiful country? Then Burning Bush Adventures is for YOU!
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Burning Bush Adventures (BBA)
was created in 1989 by Howard A Cohen while he was in rabbinical
school. It is one of the oldest Jewish Outdoor Adventure programs in the country. After a successful career in
outdoor education Howard decided to enter Reconstructionist Rabbinical College with the idea of combining
Judaism and the Outward Bound model. (To learn about each of the four different school where he worked click here.) This was the seed that became
Burning Bush Adventures.
After graduating Howard accepted an offer to become the rabbi of a small congregation in Vermont. The demands of his growing congregation forced him to limit his plans for BBA. Never the less, while tending to his congregation he continued to offer on a limited basis canoe trips during the summer and, with the help of his friends Kevin and Polly of Mahoosuc Guide Services, dog sled trips in the winter. After 12 wonderful years Howard as a pulpit rabbi Howard accepted a position as the Interim Dean of Jewish Life at the American Hebrew Academy in North Carolina. Today Howard is back in Vermont and dividing his time between his private pastoral counseling practice and BBA.
BBA is the preeminent outdoor adventure programming combining Judaism and wilderness travel in New England. We offer half day to multi-day hiking and canoeing trips in the spring, summer and fall and three day/two night dog sledding winter camping trips in the winter. We use hand built wood canoes when paddling and sleds in the winter. Unfortunately due to a hard drive crash last spring we lost all of our photos of showing Howard building the canoes.
If you are looking for a rabbi to officiate at your wedding or other ritual event, e.g. unveiling, baby naming, funeral, bar or bat mitzvah, etc. please feel free to call Rabbi Cohen at 413-652-7086 or email him at ravfirefighter@gmail.com. He serves the Eastern New York, Western Mass, and Vermont regions. I'll travel further afield too.
After graduating Howard accepted an offer to become the rabbi of a small congregation in Vermont. The demands of his growing congregation forced him to limit his plans for BBA. Never the less, while tending to his congregation he continued to offer on a limited basis canoe trips during the summer and, with the help of his friends Kevin and Polly of Mahoosuc Guide Services, dog sled trips in the winter. After 12 wonderful years Howard as a pulpit rabbi Howard accepted a position as the Interim Dean of Jewish Life at the American Hebrew Academy in North Carolina. Today Howard is back in Vermont and dividing his time between his private pastoral counseling practice and BBA.
BBA is the preeminent outdoor adventure programming combining Judaism and wilderness travel in New England. We offer half day to multi-day hiking and canoeing trips in the spring, summer and fall and three day/two night dog sledding winter camping trips in the winter. We use hand built wood canoes when paddling and sleds in the winter. Unfortunately due to a hard drive crash last spring we lost all of our photos of showing Howard building the canoes.
If you are looking for a rabbi to officiate at your wedding or other ritual event, e.g. unveiling, baby naming, funeral, bar or bat mitzvah, etc. please feel free to call Rabbi Cohen at 413-652-7086 or email him at ravfirefighter@gmail.com. He serves the Eastern New York, Western Mass, and Vermont regions. I'll travel further afield too.
And if you are looking for Burning Bush Adventures for a wilderness experience, please email or call so we can arrange your trip!
PROGRAMS BBA Trips range from half day outings to multi day. Choose your season. In the winter we snow shoe, cross country ski and back country telemark. We partner with Mahoosuc Guide Service in Maine to offer three day dog sled/cross country trips too. In the spring, summer and fall we hike and paddle. |
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