Get to know...Bob Rabinoff
Born: New York City on Rosh Chodesh Kislev 5709
Married: in New York in my parents' apartment on 12-23-1973. I had just returned from Transcendental Meditation Teacher Training, and my mother A"H was ill with what turned out to be terminal colon cancer, so it was a very small affair - 14 people including us.
We immediately headed to Oregon to meet her family, then back to Tucson where I finished my PhD in 1975.
We divorced in 1989. I was with my friend Marie after that, and was her primary caregiver once she became bedridden (chronic-progressive MS) until she died in 2014.
Children:
Joseph - born 2-21-81. He and wife Kirsten are Math professors at Duke, and parents of Theo, 4, Alma, 2, and as-yet-unnamed girl due 3-1-2021 IY"H.
Daniel - born 4-23-1984. He is working as a data analyst for a large furniture company in Winnipeg. He ha a PhD in philosophy from U of Toronto. Wife Elena is finishing her PhD in Philosophy.
Eve - born 4-23-1984, also has PhD in Philosophy from Boston College, works as volunteer coordinator for CASA of Madison and Clark Counties, KY. Partner Eric is Assoc Prof of Philosophy at U of KY.
Shoshanah - born 4-23-1984, is a nurse working Labor and Delivery in Palo Alto. Husband Erik is a Major, USMC Reserves and is finishing a PsyD. Parents of Nathaniel, 8 and Thea, 6.
Member of ASKT since: Feb 2017
ASKT roles/committees: Currently co-Treasurer with David Hallerman and a member of the Executive Committee.
Hobbies: mostly trying to catch up on all the reading I've had piled up for some time.
Professions: I was trained as a Physicist and taught physics at Maharishi International University for 9 years, until the triplets were born in 1984. After that I mostly wrote custom software for the financial services and telecom industries. I did that until Marie died in 2014, then got recertification to teach TM. After attempting, unsuccessfully, to move to Winnipeg to teach with my kids' mom, it was decided that I move to Milwaukee. ASKT was a main reason for my relocation here.
My students used to say "learning from Bob is like trying to take a drink from a fire hydrant." Now you know why.