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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1988
blems and situations for
which they have had little or
no formal training.
"Not only will they study
Jewish traditional texts, but
also there will be afternoon
sessions teaching skills
adapted from other fields,
such as how people and their
leadership function in groups.
These are roles that rabbis
often have to play in their
congregations, but have no
formal training in politics to
know how to handle," said
Shaw.
"Rabbis
are
really
generalists, like primary care
or family physicians," said
Shaw. "This is a way, in the
midcourse of their careers for
many of them, to try to expose
them to new insights in their
professional role."
Some of the topics will deal
with the inner lives of rabbis
and their congregants, • he
said — topics such as for-
mulating what they believe
in, how to deal with loss of
faith, how a rabbi uses his
own vulnerability to help his
congregants.
"We believe we are helping
the rabbis in the field to
renew what they're doing and
understand it better in the at-
mosphere of a sympathetic
environment with other pro-
fessionals," said Shaw.
Dr. Ismar Schorsch, JTS
chancellor, said that, "By vir-
tually every criteria, (the
New York institute) was an
overwhelming success and, in
cooperation with the Rab-
binical Assembly, we are now
extending it to other parts of
the country." Other such in-
stitutes are scheduled
elsewhere in the country later
in 1989.
"I believe this program is
our most ambitious attempt
to deal with the challenge of
developing high quality con-
tinuing education for con-
gregational rabbis," he stated.
Headed by Dr. Schorsch, the
Midwest Institute will
feature textual studies in the
mornings, professional skills
workshops in the afternoons
and introspective study
groups in the evenings.
Instructors include JTS
academicians as well as pro-
fessionals in psychology,
Jewish communal organiza-
tions and strategic studies.
Among the latter are
William Lebeau, JTS vice
chancellor and chairman of
its department of professional
skills; Avraham Holtz, the
JTS Simon H. Fabian Pro-
fessor of Modern Hebrew
Literature; clinical
psychologist Jack Bloom of
Bridgeport, Conn.; Jonathan
Omer-Man, director of
religious outreach for the
Jewish Federation of Los
Angeles, and Leonard Hirsch,
director of the Institute for
Strategic Management in
Washington, D.C.
The Detroit area was
selected as the site for the
Midwest Institute due to its
central location, said Lew
Hammerman,- Fresh Air
Society associate director.
Rabbis have signeFlup not on-
ly from Michigan, but also
from Minnesota,
Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas,
Texas, Kentucky, Ohio and
Pennsylvania in the U.S., plus
the Ontario, Canada, cities of
London, Downsview,
Hamilton and Richmond Hill.
Registered from the Detroit
area are Rabbis Elliot Pachter
and Efry Spectre of Mat
Shalom Synagogue; Rabbi
David A. Nelson of Congrega-
tion Beth Shalom and Rabbi
Irwin Groner of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek. Attending
from Kalamazoo will be Rab-
bi Harvey Spivak of Con-
gregation of Moses.
The Jewish Theological
Seminary is underwriting the
rabbis' room and board for the
institute. Each participant is
asked to pay a $200 registra-
tion fee to help cover "a small
portion of the considerable
programmatic costs" and also
to help defray thQ major
transportation expenses of
their colleagues, according to
Dr. Schorsch.
JACS
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Group members often hear
that. They don't believe it.
"When temples or
synagogues won't open their
doors to us, it's like they're
saying, 'There are no Jewish
alcoholics or addicts, " one
man said. "And that's just not
true. Chemical dependency is
a major problem in the
Jewish community."
At least 20 million
Americans suffer from
alcoholism. More than 5 per-
cent of those — or 1 million —
are reportedly Jewish. Other
recovery programs, such as
Pills Anonymous in New
York, have a large number of
Jewish participants.
Members of the JACS group
here believe the first major
hurdle for Jews with chemical
and alcoholic dependencies is
simply to come to the
meetings. They understand
the courage this requires.
"We all walked in with the
same kind of fears," one group
member said. "Now we want
to say people: 'We know
you're concerned about the
stigma and the gossip. But
there are people who've gone
through it all and know what
you feel. And we're waiting
for you.' "