Riverside rabbi took nontraditional path

[Ayatollahgondola]

One of the kids I grew up with took hebrew lessons during his elementary school period. We were all out riding bikes, building skateboards out of steel roller skates, and digging tunnels at the river while he learned a language that none of us ever heard.
Last I talked with him he was an architect in the north bay. I should have asked him how handy that hebrew has been