Rabbi Lorin Troderman

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Lorin is a recent graduate of the Earth-Based Judaism Program at ALEPH and has been the spiritual leader of Adas Yoshuron Synagogue in Rockland, Maine, since August 2023. His rabbinical school studies also included interfaith families’ Jewish engagement.

Lorin’s undergraduate degree is from Babson College and he earned a graduate degree in education from Australia’s LaTrobe University and an MBA focusing on sustainability from Presidio School of Management. Before coming to Adas Yoshuron Lorin served, in Portland, Maine, as a rabbinic intern at Temple Beth El, the director of the University of Southern Maine Hillel and the Jewish chaplain at Maine Medical Center.

He lives with his partner Sussi in Camden, Maine, and feels blessed to be part of the wonderful midcoast Maine Jewish community.  Lorin has two adult sons: the elder, Dylan, lives in Seattle and the younger, Max, resides in Boulder. He loves to play guitar, walk in the Camden Hills and bask in the miraculous beauty of the Wabanaki Dawnland.

For Lorin, the Jewish community is a large, many faceted family that stretches from enduring day school friendships, to memories of Kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, situated between Haifa and Nazareth, to the shores of the Australian capital Melbourne, to both coasts of the US where Lorin has directed Hillels (Santa Cruz and Southern Maine). These are places where he has made his home and celebrated being Jewish with family, friends, activists, congregants and community.

“Wherever I go, I feel present as a part of Klal Yisrael,the Jewish people. Sinai continues to make a claim on me to learn and teach about our heritage and walk humbly with those who also strive to speak this language,” says Lorin. “I am drawn to cultivating practices that enhance my own and others’ relationship with YHVH. Each day I seek a firmer grasp of how Judaism’s unique dimensions  can uplift people  and places of all kinds.”

This devotion to enhancing the lives of Jews, their neighbors and their varied communities is ingrained throughout Lorin’s life. He strives to combine in the fabric of our lives the warp of American pluralistic and democratic idealism with the weft of Jewish Renewal’s hope, heart and passion.