Rabbi Randi Nagel serves Temple House of Israel in Staunton, VA. She attended Boston University and Hebrew College before moving to Jerusalem to start rabbinical school in 1999; she was ordained from the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2004.
It is a tradition that we observe as Americans as well, as we enter into booths each fall (and occasionally at other moments during the year) in order to make our voices heard and exercise our right to vote.