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patients and see if there was anything
he could do, even if it meant just lis-
StaffWriter
tening to them." Ridenour said.
obert Levy's arm didn't
Kleinman says Levy has done simi-
need to be twisted when he
lar work in the past. "He's very
was asked to volunteer as
involved in UAHC programs with
the Jewish chaplain at the
AIDS. He's a great resource and we
Veteran's Administration Hospital in
feel comfortable directing rabbis and
Ann Arbor 10 years ago.
laypeople from throughout the region
Five years later, the rabbi of Ann
that have questions to him. He offers
Arbor's Temple Beth Emeth expressed
the rest of us an example."
his interest in working with the AIDS
Levy, 44, has been the rabbi at
and HIV-positive patients in the VA's
Temple Beth Emeth for 14 years,
infectious disease unit.
coming to Ann Arbor from
For his work at the hospital, Levy
Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Jo
will be one of four rabbis honored by
Ellin Gutterman. They have two
Reform Judaism's
daughters, Zoe
Religious Action Center
and Noa
at the annual meeting of
Gutterman.
the Central Conference of
Levy began
American Rabbis next
working with
week.
AIDS patients
"The CCAR is trying
because "I rec-
to honor a few rabbis who
ognized there
have made social justice
was a large
and social action integral
population
to their rabbinate," said
with AIDS,
Rabbi Elliot Kleinman,
including Jews,
regional director for the
and I didn't
Union of American
have contact
Hebrew Congregations
with them
(UAHC). "He has made
because the
social justice part and par-
synagogue
cel of what he does, and
community
we were delighted to sug- Award-winner Rabbi Robert Levy.
wasn't attract-
gest him for this award."
ing them."
George Ridenour, an
Nov, as the
AIDS counselor who works with Levy
hospital's Jewish chaplain, "I just go
at the VA Hospital, said, "I think he
when called to see Jewish patients," he
deserves to be honored because he
said. "If a patient is there, go twice
thinks he shouldn't be. Some people
a week, and then may not go for a few
see someone with AIDS as being sick,
months if there are no Jewish patients.
and he sees them as a person that
I just try and be helpful in facilitating
needs help."
needs for them."
Although not a military veteran,
Said Levy, "Five years ago, everyone
knew how to get AIDS but no one
Levy has made being at the VA a regu-
lar part of his life. He is on the
was interested in getting close to it,
and I didn't think I was doing enough
Human Subjects Committee, which
oversees research and ensures the
in that area. I felt it was a way I could
appropriateness for subjects of experi-
make a contribution and do some-
ments.
thing important and socially relevant."
"The VA used to have a reputation
While he was on a sabbatical in
as being a place of last resort," said
1993, he was able to make three visits
a week to the VA Hospital. He made
Levy. "The status of it now is so strong
that it has become an attractive place
rounds speaking to AIDS patients and
to go, and there are many Jews who
worked in the infectious disease clinic
are World War II veterans that, as they
once a week.
age, need the services of the VA."
"He wanted to get to know the

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