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SHELLI DORFMAN
Staff Writer

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Temple Beth El rabbi
to join clergy at
California congregation.

fter two years as "a won-
derful presence at
Temple Beth El," Rabbi
Sheila Goloboy will leave
the Bloomfield Township syna-
gogue at the end of June, Rabbi
Daniel Syme said last week. _
"Unfortunately, our budget for
next year does not permit for a
third rabbi," he said.
Rabbi Goloboy, 30, will become
associate rabbi for the 1,400-family
Congregation Beth Israel of San
Diego. After exploring alternatives,
she completed contract negotiations
with the California synagogue on
Jan. 12. "It's just the right oppor-
tunity at the right time,"-she said.
Originally from Boston,
Rabbi Goloboy attended
Hebrew Union College Jewish
Institute of Religion, the
Reform movement's rabbini-
cal school, for one year in
Jerusalem and four in
Cincinnati. She was ordained
in 1997.
Before coming to Detroit,
she was a chaplain at
Children's Hospital Medical
Center in Cincinnati. Temple
Beth El, a 1,500-family con-
gregation marking its 150th
birthday this year, is her first
congregational position.
Rabbi
"I am taking with me the
Sheila Goloboy
strength and knowledge I
found here and building
upon it. I would probably not be
wonderful and creative and growing
considered for this position if I had
relationship with her," he said.
not learned and grown here," she said.
"Rabbi Goloboy is going to be
Assuming general rabbinic respon-
involved in every aspect of our congre-
sibilities at Beth Israel, she will join
gation's programming," which Rabbi
Rabbi Jonathan Stein, the senior
Stein said will include pulpit work,
rabbi. Rabbi Stein said he looks for-
sermons, pastoral counseling and care,
ward to the inclusion of Rabbi
life-cycle events, education, social jus-
Goloboy in the congregation.
tice issues and involvement in the
"She made a tremendously positive
decision-making process with the staff
impression on all of us. We feel very
and the board of the directors.
blessed to be able to add her to our
In addition, specific areas Rabbi
clergy staff and look forward to a
Goloboy will supervise include youth
activities programs involving three
Shelli Dorfman can be reached at
youth groups, Israel trips and college
(248) 354-6060, ext. 246, or by e-mail
students; bar and bat mitzvah program-
at sdorfman@thejewishnews.com
ming; and teaching a Sunday class and

adult education classes. She
The West Bloomfield Township
also will be involved in new
trustees approved a proposal allow-
synagogue projects, includ-
ing the Jewish Community Center
ing the upgrading of both
to
build a bike path on Maple Road.
the congregation's library and
Yad Ezra, Detroit's first Jewish
the college youth program.
food
pantry, announced it would
Programs that Rabbi
open
by the beginning of February.
Goloboy is involved with at
Beth El include the temple's
ra'
bereavement support group
The Union of Councils for Soviet
bicur cholim (visiting the
Jews
urged President Jimmy Carter
sick), high school education,
to
officially
sanction the removal of
youth group, adult educa-
this year's Olympics from Moscow.
tion and young adult group.
The American ORT Federation
With her departure,
honored
Irving Nusbaum as ORT
-Rabbi Symetays, "Some
Man
of
the
Year in New York.
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After 60 years as chief executive,
to sustain them within the
Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff retired as
limits of our current staff"
board chairman of RCA Corp.
"I've learned so much
All but two of the Dead Sea
from my rabbinical colleagues
Scrolls
were pulled from display at
and the entire staffhere at
the
Israel
Museum until leak-proof,
temple," Rabbi Goloboy says,
helium-filled
display cases could be
reflecting on her time at Beth
manufactured
to house them.
El. "I am excited and very
A
Jewish
cricketer,
Aron Bacher,
grateful to have had the expe-
was
selected
to
captain
the South
rience here."
African
team
in
its
test
series
against
Marion Freedman, tem-
Australia;
they'll
play
in
Johannesburg.
ple president, said the oper- • M.
ational changes that
ki\X
brought about the depar-
Seymour
F.
Posner
was
elected
ture of the rabbi also
chancellor of Detroit Graduate
involve some support-staff
chapter of Tau Epsilon Rho, the
cuts, as well as revenue
international legal fraternity.
enhancements in the form
The Arab League Boycott
of a membership dues
Committee
in London has black-
increase. She said the tem-
listed
a
British
freighter for trading
ple's "new strategic plan
with
Israel,
calling
at Israeli ports
mandates a balanced bud-
and
carrying
Israeli
cargo.
get." It was devised with the
input of an efficiency expert about a
year ago.
Rabbi Joseph Baras was appointed
"At some point, we would like to
director of the local Agudath Israel
be able to engage the services of
activities.
another rabbi," she said.
Eddie Cantor added a new find
Freedman said Rabbi Goloboy has
to
his
list of discoveries — 20-year-
"brought a great deal to Temple Beth
old
Eddie
Fisher, whom Cantor
El and the community," and is pleased
noticed
singing
at Grossinger's
at "the wonderful opportunity" that
resort
in
the
Catskills
of New York.
awaits the rabbi in San Diego.
Four
Iraqi
Jews
were
sentenced
Rabbi Syme calls Rabbi Goloboy "a
by
a
Baghdad
court
to
three
years
wonderful young woman, who did a
of
compulsory
labor
for
member-
marvelous job. With her caring for
ship in an illegal Zionist group.
people and extraordinary pastoral
skills, her new congregation is very
— Compiled by Sy Manello,
fortunate to have her." Ell
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