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Participating in Kol Ami's Sunday music class are, from left: Caren
Paskel, Linda Harrison and Amy Levine.

and
Spectre
Rabbi
Associate Rabbi Elliot
Pachter devote a great deal of
their time to education by
teaching children, visiting
the nursery school and con-
ducting special adult ses-
sions. Spectre teaches the con-
firmation class, in addition to
visiting the nursery on Shab-
bat, speaking to the bar/bat
mitzvah club, teaching the
adult bat mitzvah and post-
bat mitzvah classes and lec-
turing at members' homes on
topical Jewish issues.
He also is involved in the
Family Living Room project of
the United Hebrew Schools,
takes the teens on a "Jewish
New York" trip and conducts
a student study weekend at
Camp Tamarack. In addition,
Spectre is involved in cur-
riculum development.
"Education is basically what
we're into," Spectre said of his
heavy teaching schedule. "It's
the basis of our synagogue."
Rabbi Roman would like to
expand his teaching schedule,
but right now that isn't "prac-
tical." "If I didn't teach music,
I would teach more on Sun-
day." Spectre is limited by
time, but added "we do hit
every- group with an educa-
tional kind of thing." For Gor-
don, the bar/bat mitzvah
preparation is plenty. In addi-
tion to his synagogue duties
and teaching, Rabbi Gordon is
a chaplain at Northville State
Hospital and entertains at
nursing homes.
On holidays, the rabbis will
explain or demonstrate the
traditions associated with a
particular observance. Rabbi
Gordon will read a story and
explain the ritual items
associated with the holidays.
Rabbi Roman teaches holiday
songs. Rabbi Weiss takes the
children into the sanctuary.
Rabbi Kirshner said a rab-
bi should be involved in
teaching and in supervising
the activities of his congrega-
tion's religious school. "The
kids should feel the school is

important to him. He is a part
of their lives." To Rabbi Gor-
don, the rabbi should make
his skills available, but not
run the show. "The rabbi
should offer the skills that he
wants the kids to have. It
should be up to the teachers
and principals to effect this."
To Rabbi Roman, a rabbi
should be a role model to the
students and also the link to
all things Jewish. "I try to
make as many links horizon-
tally and vertically — bet-
ween children, families,
parents, teachers, synagogue,
rabbis on the horizontal plane
and the present Jewish com-
munity, Jewish history and
the future represented by the
kids on the vertical . . . Where
all these different aspects of
being Jewish converge, is the
heart, soul and persona of the
rabbi?'
For Rabbi Spectre, teaching
is the rabbi's "raison d'etre."
"His involvement shows his
understanding of the primacy
of youth education," Spectre
said.
"Th be a teacher, that's
what rabbi means," said Beth
Shalom's Nelson. "If I didn't
love the teaching aspect of my
field, I wouldn't have chosen
it.'

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