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JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR
Special to the Jewish News

T

hree local congregations —
B'nai Moshe, Shaarey Zedek
and Shir Shalom — are
seeking new executive direc-
tors to lead them into the 21st century.
A congregational executive director
is generally responsible for a wide range
of administrative duties, including
fund-raising, financial management,
membership recruit-
ment and day-to-day
supervision of
department heads.
"Finding a person
who can handle all
of that, and create
efficient systems
with a small staff, is
rare," said Deborah
Rubyan, departing
executive director at the Conservative
Congregation
B'nai Moshe.
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The situation here mirrors what is
happening at the national level, said
Leonard Baruch, interim executive
director of Congregation Shaarey Zedek
and a member of the North American
Association of Synagogue Executives
(NAASE), a support organization for
Jewish congregational professionals.
"Nationally, there are a large num-
ber of positions available in all sizes of
congregation," he said. "There is a lot
of attrition, people retiring or moving
into other professional positions in the
Jewish community."
He should know. Baruch was called
back from retirement, officially executive
director emeritus, to assume the duties
of a more active interim executive direc-
tor when the former executive director,
Mark Bello, resigned in mid-December.
Bello was unavailable for comment.
Baruch will continue with the daily
operational duties of running the
Conservative congregation's three sites
—•die Southfield and West
Bloomfield congregational buildings
and a West Bloomfield education cen-
ter — until a replacement is found.
"I have indicated to (congregational
leaders) that they must move quickly
and they are," Baruch said.
The congregation's search commit-

tee is getting search help from the
Conservative movement's NAASE. No
time limit was set for the search.
For B'nai Moshe, the loss of an
executive director was due to a shift in
Rubyan's priorities. She decided to
return to graduate school for a doctor-
ate in business, to consult part-time for
Jewish and secular professional organi-
zations and to spend more time with
her two children.
"That's the official rap," she joked,
and its true."
After Rubyan
quit, she helped the
congregation form
a search committee
to interview candi-
dates for her
replacement. While
no successor has
been found yet, she
said the transition
between her departure and her
replacement's arrival will be smooth.
"Things are clean and set and
information is accessible," she said. "It
is an organized place, and the staff is
doing what needs to get done."
For Temple Shir Shalom, the search
for executive director has been spurred
by the dynamic growth the I 0-year-
old Reform congregation has experi-
enced, said president Steven Simons.
"We are like the bar mitzvah boy
who has suddenly become the adult,
he said. "We have different responsi-
bilities and different needs."
The congregation's evolution from
grassroots movement to 800-family
full-service religious organization in a
decade required many of its lay leaders
to take on large amounts of responsi-
bility, Simons said. He said the con-
gregation must hire a professional to
take over the administrative tasks.
An ad for the position that appeared
last Friday in The Jewish. News and its
two sister publications, The Baltimore
Jewish Times and The Atlanta Jewish
Times, brought three faxed resumes by
9 a.m. Monday, but Simons said the
congregation wasn't in a rush.
"We want to find and hire the
right candidate," Simons said.
"When the right candidate appears,
we will know." LI

B'Nai Moshe,
Shaarey Zedek and
Shir Shalom seek
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