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faiths, readings for Christian
Scouts that begin at the front
cover, and a service for Jewish
Scouts that opens from right
to left.
In compiling readings for
Jewish Boy Scouts, Rabbi
Sleutelberg took material
from Reform, Conservative
and Orthodox prayer books.
He also selected private
meditations, one of which
tells the story of an eagle and
eaglet flying together in a
canyon.
Suddenly, the father drops
the baby bird and it flutters
down into the canyon. The
eagle is sure the baby is dead.
Then, at the last minute, the
mother swoops down and cat-
ches her child.
While at HUC, Rabbi
Sleutelberg also served as
chaplain at the Jewish
Hospital in Cincinnati and
helped found a Reform con-
gregation in New Jersey.
But his attachment to Beth
El in Traverse City remained
strong. During his second
summer at HUC, he returned
to the congregation and
began working with bar and
bat mitzvah students,
counseling, starting adult
education courses and
teaching children.
When Rabbi Sleutelberg
began working at Beth El,
the congregation had no
religious school. So he started
•one.
"Only about three kids, of
all different ages, were there,"
he said. "But I wouldn't have
cared if there was only one."
By the end of the first sum-
mer of the religious school, 15
students had enrolled.
And with the children came
their parents. The congrega-
tion has increased from 30 to
45 members, Rabbi
Sleutelberg said.
The small size of the con-
gregation might sound less
than inviting to some rabbis,
but it's one of the things Rab-
bi Sleutelberg finds most at-
tractive about Beth El.
"I love the size," he said'.
"Because the Jewish popula-
tion there is small, it means
the only things Jews in
Traverse City have are the
things they themselves
create. And that brings com-
mitment."
Congregants asked him to
consider staying, but Beth El
was not large enough to sus-
tain the full-time services of
a rabbi, Rabbi Sleutelberg
said.
Then Troy came along.
Rabbi Sleutelberg heard
from friends that the Troy
Jewish Congregation, with
about 110 families, was in-
terested in hiring a student
rabbi.
"That," he said, "got me
thinking."
It also got him talking, both
to officials at Beth El and the
Troy Jewish Congregation.
And the more he heard, the
more he liked.
"I knew that small con-
gregations are where I feel
most at home," Rabbi
Sleutelberg said. "That way,
you get to know each con-
gregant and become involved
in life-cycle events of every
family.
"That means that, as a rab-
Rabbi Sleutelberg
bi, I have the opportunity to
really become involved in con-
gregants' lives in a signifi-
cant way — not just know
their names."
It's a quality his con-
gregants appreciate.
Joel Miller, a Cadillac resi-
dent and member of Con-
gregation Beth El, described
Rabbi Sleutelberg as "warm
and gentle. He really has a
kind of magic that comes out
of him."
Miller admitted that once
he got a little weary of the 50-
mile drive to Traverse City
and slacked off in his atten-
dance at services.
"Then Rabbi Sleutelberg
called to see how I was doing.
I was so touched that he
would reach out like that,"
Miller said.
After the call, Miller began
attending services again, he
said.
Following his ordination at
HUC, Rabbi Sleutelberg
received numerous job offers.
He narrowed them down to a
congregation in Alberta and
the Troy-Traverse City option,
finally selecting the latter in
part because he feels Canada
is "a very conservative coun-
try — both socially and
Last May — the same
month he graduated — Rabbi
Sleutelberg and leaders of the