Bridget Kevane Traxler

As Montana Rabbi Retires, Big Sky Jews Ponder Viability of Big Tent Synagogue

Bozeman, Mont. – As Allen Secher, the 73-year-old rabbi of Montana’s Jewish community, sat in a coffee shop here recently, a woman approached his table with a question. “Are you the rabbi?” she asked. This wasn’t the first such encounter for Secher, who is known throughout this state of roughly 900,000 people as “the” rabbi,…