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Getting to Know TAO

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Date(s) - 01/07/2021
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Sweet and Holy Friends, join Anne Goldberg as she interviews Ted and Chris Brownstein, in our ‘Getting to Know TAO’ series of interviews where we learn more about our TAO friends and members.

Ted Brownstein was raised in a secular Jewish household, culturally Jewish, but unaffiliated. He has drifted through various religious communities over the years and now identifies as an Interfaith-Jewish-Christian-Bahai. Raised primarily in Chicago, he met his wife, Chris, at Beloit College in Wisconsin. They married in 1970, have 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren. Ted has had diverse careers in woodcrafts, computer programming and financial analysis. Retired since 2007, he has been active in volunteer work and currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the Lake Worth Interfaith Network, Abrahamic Reunion, Kiwanis Club of Lake Worth, the Historical Society of Lake Worth, among others.  Ted holds a Master’s Degree in the Hebrew Bible from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, is a founder of the Lake Worth Interfaith Network, an ambassador for the Parliament of the World’s Religions and teaches classes in Hebrew Bible and Interfaith Dialogue online for the Wilmette Institute. Ted is also compiler of The Interfaith Prayer Book and author of Pioneers of Jewell, Soaring in the Heaven of God’s Love and Kinship of the Bible and Qur’an.
 
Chris Brownstein was born in Chicago in 1950 and was raised in a Chicago suburb. Chris was sent to a Christian Sunday School because it was expected of parents back then, but her family was not at all religious. Chris spent many happy summers in rural Wisconsin, where she cultivated a great love for the out of doors. Chris met Ted in College in Southern Wisconsin. They were married in 1970, and were blessed with two daughters. They have lived in South Florida since 1987. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters in Early Childhood Education from FAU. Chris’s occupations included motherhood, working along side Ted in the wooden sign shop, and teaching preschool. (An occupation with deplorable wages, but plenty of free hugs) Since retirement, Chris’s favorite volunteer work is teaching music to preschoolers. She also volunteers with Kiwanis and sings in a choir. Chris also enjoys swimming with the Palm Beach Masters Swim Club, biking, sailing and working in the garden. Chris has difficulty labeling herself any particular religion. “Child of God” is the label she prefers. She has a great hunger and curiosity for spiritual things, which she satiates through a great deal of reading and participation in a variety of spiritual activities.

Anne Goldberg has been doing personal interviews for more than 15 years as part of TAO’s People of Distinction and her own legacy video business.  Most of her work is with boomers and seniors, helping them to know they are old enough to have a past and young enough to have a future – at any age – through her original lecture series, The Art of Living Longer.  Currently, she and her partner David Hall, produce The Savvy Seniors Show on YouTube, free content to ‘edu-tain’ folks while under quarantine.  A two-term past-president of TAO, Anne chaired the Oneg committee for five years, chaired many events, has been a member of the High Holy Day choir for 14 years and, in the before times, she ran the Power Point virtual Siddur at virtually all of TAO’s Shabbat services since 2014.  Anne is delighted to be a part of Getting to Know TAO. 

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