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Temple Beth El hires its first woman rabbi
and a new religious school director.

JULIE WIENER
StaffWriter

R

abbi Sheila Goloboy, a
recent graduate of Hebrew
Union College, is about to
become Temple Beth El's
first woman rabbi.
While several women rabbis fill
non-pulpit positions locally and the
Humanistic Birmingham Temple has
two women assistant rabbis,
Goloboy will be the only female
Reform rabbi serving a Detroit con-
gregation. No local Conservative
congregations have women rabbis in
pulpit positions, and the Orthodox
movements do not ordain women
rabbis.
Goloboy will share day-to-day
rabbinic tasks with Beth El Rabbis
Daniel Syme and David Castiglione.
She'll also oversee youth activities
and the Reach for Hope program.
Goloboy, 28, is not fazed by the
prospect of being one of the few
women with a pulpit. She's had her
eye on the bimah for a long time.
"I decided when I was about 5 that
I liked the idea of being a rabbi," she
said, adding that her earliest memory
is of going up to the bimah with her
brother and watching her parents
open the ark.
Goloboy will join Beth El next
month, along with a new religious
school director, Elizabeth Bloch. Their
hiring follows staff restructuring in
which the synagogue eliminated the
position of congregational educator,
held by Joyce Seglin.
Goloboy, a Boston native, said she
always enjoyed Hebrew school and her
parents were very active in the Jewish
community. After graduating from
Tufts University with a degree in engi-
neering psychology, she entered
Hebrew Union College, graduating in
1997. For the past year, she has partic-
ipated in a chaplaincy internship pro-
gram at Children's Hospital in
Cincinnati.
"The counseling skills I've
received here have been an incredi-
ble learning experience, but I knew
all along I wanted to take what I
learned back to the Jewish commu-

nity and use them in a pulpit posi-
tion,". said Goloboy.
Goloboy doesn't anticipate her gen-
der being a challenge in the new job.
"I hope people see me as a rabbi first
and a female rabbi second," she said,
adding that it hasn't been an issue dur-
ing her visits to Beth El.
But she hopes her presence serves as
a role model for girls. "I met a couple
of little girls the other day and if you'd
ask them objectively if women could

Rabbi Sheila Goloboy will share rab-
binic duties with Rabbis Daniel Syme
and David Castiglione.

Opposite page: Elizabeth Bloch will
head Temple Beth El's religious school

be rabbis, they Frobably would say
`yes,' but to have female rabbinic role
models, to see that a woman can defi-
nitely be a rabbi, that it's normal for
her to stand in the pulpit with the
male rabbis, that really makes a differ-
ence," she said.
Beth El's incoming president,
Marion Freedman, agrees. "It's telling
that we've selected a woman not
because she's a woman but because of
the skills she brings to the congrega-